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I personally use the program TextEdit, which is a plaintext editor on Mac. It's just a plaintext editor, so it doesn't have any tools to help users write HTML, though it's still very useful to have a plaintext editor if users want to go that route. TextEdit is a default program already installed in Mac OS X, in the applications folder. Some preferences/settings of the program need to be modified, or else it will completely break your code (this happened to me the first couple times I used it):
1. TextEdit > Preferences > New Document > Format: Plain text.
2. TextEdit > Preferences > New Document > Options > Smart copy/paste: No (this option may be useful if they intend to copy/paste for any reason).
3. TextEdit > Preferences > New Document > Options > Smart quotes: No.
4. TextEdit > Preferences > New Document > Options > Smart Dashes: No.
5. TextEdit > Preferences > New Document > Options > Smart links: No.
6. TextEdit > Preferences > Open and Save > When Opening a File > Display HTML files as HTML code...: Yes.
7. TextEdit > Preferences > Open and Save > HTML Saving Options > Preserve white space: Yes (I believe this just doesn't collapse whitespace in the source file; I don't have access to the program at the moment, so I can't verify this).
8. Probably leave every other setting as default; the user can change them if they want to, or if I missed anything. |