editing scripts on a mac

[Thomas Nelson]

On Apr 27, 11:37 am, Tommy Grav <t... at mac.com> wrote:
> > him> I do not have a text editor, but here are the answers to
> > him> questions 1-5.
>
> > Now, frankly, I don't think this answer is correct, since I know OS  
> > X is
> > a UNIX derivative, but I am loathe to involve a programming noob  
> > with vi
> > or something similar. So I wondered if one of the c.l.py mac users  
> > could
> > give brief instructions for firing up a visual text editor of some  
> > sort
> > and saving a file somewhere it can easily be accessed from a terminal
> > window (which I presume starts up in his home directory).
>

1) Open Finder, click "Applications", and open "TextEdit".
2) hit shift-apple-T, or select Format -> Make Plain Text,  to put you
in plaintext mode (It's .rtf by default)
3) Make sure you save in the home directory (usually a picture of a
house).

HTH,
Tom