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Meanwhile TextEdit on Mac always rendered HTML. Which seems useless until you realize it can also edit and save as HTML. So there's casually a wysiwyg web editor built into macOS that idk how many people use.

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idk maybe TextEdit DOES have some rce not discovered yet?

maybe we should separate "real origianl text-only editor" from "fancy text editor"?

windows already got wordpad... why even lay a finger on textpad?

Windows had wordpad but it was discontinued two years ago : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WordPad

wat?????

wtf why?????????

So you subscribe to the Microsoft CoPilot 365 App or whatever it's called now.

hmm... ok maybe that's reasonable

charge extra premium for a "secure vanilla-text™ pure unadulterated wysiwyg editor" experience should be a thing for the "security-minded" enterprises

If it also allowed me to type what I want instead of changing every single word due to "spell check" it would actually be a useful tool!

Spell check is fine - highlight misspelled words, offer corrections when asked. What's incredibly harmful is autocorrect, as it slowly but surely causes vast majority of computer users to become partly illiterate. And nobody gives a damn, because hey, we're efficiently saving time!

It didn't cause me to become illiterate, it caused me to give up using it and find something else since it was "correcting" a lot of things that were correct to begin with, and going back to re-change them became a chore in the only 10 minutes I used it.

TextEdit prefs (not systemwide prefs) have easy checkboxes to disable all that, also the smart quotes. Also gotta make it default to plain text.

The reason I dropped it was cause of a bug where I'd highlight text, copy, and it's actually copy the wrong block of text. Idk the trigger but seems related to larger files.

Ok wysiwyg web editor is maybe overselling it. You can make a text-only page in it. Still neat.

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