If you keep on changing TextEdit from rich text mode to plain text each time you open the app, here's how you can change the default settings in the often-used text-editing tool. TextEdit is arguably ...

For some silly reason, OS X’s TextEdit app’s default format is rich text. If you prefer plain text, Defaults Write points out that you can easily set that as your default with a Terminal command. All ...

I'm working on a program that is writing a UTF-8 text file. This process works fine. What doesn't work fine is that TextEdit.app (and others) does not recognise it automatically as a UTF-8 text file, ...