Plain text editor for Fetch on Mac OS 10.2

[Maverick4two]

I have spent hours trying to find a plain text editor for Mac OS 10.2 can any one help me with a download url, preferably freeware or shareware. I tried Textwrangler but this needs 10.3 which I don't have. All I want to do is change a .htaccess file and add a 301 redirect.

Fetch will only see Textwrangler which I can't load because it needs a higher OS. It won't recognise Taco, uedit or really simple text editors!

By the way this forum is great, I found Textwrangler here under a similar topic but could find something for OS 10.2

[microcars]

I use TextEdit for simple Text Editing like htaccess files.

It should already be in your Applications Folder.

It comes with OS X

[lZakl]

I use BBEdit ... but if you couldn't get TW to work, you'd have the same problem with BBEdit.

If you use TextEdit, be sure to go to Preferences and click the radio button that says "plain text". I believe that TextEdit's default is Rich Text Format.

-- Zak

[Maverick4two]

Thanks guys but I tried that already and again after your posts, following the instruction in fetch to close/reopen after emptying the trash but Fetch will not recognise Textedit in the preferences text editor selections. I did change it from rich to plain text. Is there something else I can do to make fetch recognise it or another programme that it will recognise that runs on 10.2? I guess I could download and FTP it but I can't see dot files!

[travelin cat]

You need Text-Edit Plus. Shareware for $15. You can edit in Fetch without ever leaving the program. It works great and has a lot of features:

[tex-edit.com...]

[Maverick4two]

Thanks a lot travelin cat ;)

That works great. Now I don't feel frustrated at not having a pc with notepad!

[Maverick4two]

Actually travelin cat

For me and anyone else who finds this post are there any preferences we should look out for, change from default?

Cheers

[microcars]

I guess I could download and FTP it but I can't see dot files!

aahhh... you mean like .htaccess instead of htaccess

I've always created the files without the "dot" and then uploaded them and added the "dot" once it is in the directory.

Files with a "dot" in front are supposed to be hidden System Files on the Mac

[travelin cat]

microcars,

That's a good point, that's why Text-Edit Plus works so great, no need to download it, just change it right on the server, saves a bunch of headaches such as renaming ....

As far as preferences, I use it as it came for most situations....

[fingers]

I use BBEdit too.
The mighty Zeldman uses PageSpinner ($29.95) - they do a demo of it too.

[Maverick4two]

Thanks to everyone Text-Edit Plus works great within Fetch (no dot issues) and no preferences to change.

Thanks a lot.

[Maverick4two]

Actually Travelin Cat I think for .htaccess you need to select "Preferences...->Save->Auto-convert CRs to LFs during save" to automatically convert line endings to UNIX format when a document is saved.
- but I am still experimenting.