Well this sure turned into a project but thanks to all. And I
believe I have it nailed down.
I did dump VDR. Will keep it on the iPad. While searching for a
TextEdit app for the iPhone I found one. TextEditor Rich Text Editor.
Its free. And its accessible. Yup. The app has support for cloud services.
I ran a simple test, results are encouraging. Using the app I did a
minor edit on the iPhone. Went to the Mac and broughtr it up in TextEdit
and mad another edit. The change was made to the file in the TextEditor
folder in iCloud Drive, not to the one in the TextEdit folder. Confused
yet?
Opened the Files app on the iPhone and easily found the correct file
in the correct location.
The end result is exactly what I was seeking. Open an rtf file, edit
it, save it as rtf with minimal effort. (big smile)
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On 4/30/2019 8:48 AM, 'Donna Goodin' via MacVisionaries wrote:
Hi all,
I've been following this thread, but until this morning haven't had much time
to work on finding a solution. But, I have found one.
ET, if you access the rtf file through Pages rather than files, it will open in
Pages rather than VDR. So do the following:
1. Open Pages.
2. Scroll through the list of files till you get to the document you want.
3. Double-tap to open.
You will be in your document in Pages.
I don't know why VDR takes over like it does, but at least there's a
work-around. I hope this helps.
Cheers,
Donna
On Apr 30, 2019, at 7:46 AM, Donna Goodin <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi Jonathan and all,
I experience this same behavior. I actually took VDR off my iPhone, because I
couldn't find any other way to stop RTF files from opening in that app.
Cheers,
Donna
On Apr 30, 2019, at 6:13 AM, Jonathan C. Cohn <[email protected]> wrote:
So for iCloud files my understanding is IOS will look at the Macintoshes
creator tag which indicates the application that created the file and if that
exists on iOS want to use that. Why, your iOS is defaulting to reader for RTF,
I do not know. But, if you start a file in pages on the Mac it should open in
pages on iOS. If you start a file in word on Mac, should open in word on iOS.
Sent from my iPhone
On Apr 29, 2019, at 9:16 AM, 'Janina Sajka' via MacVisionaries
<[email protected]> wrote:
Sure. If RTF meets your needs, it's a good choice. It's stable and
widely supported.
RTF isn't appropriate for any kind of programming, including web content
authoring. So, it does depend on what you're needs are.
Happy to help, if you find you need basic ASCII text. It's actually not
that hard once you get a few basics in place.
Best,
Janina
'E.T.' via MacVisionaries writes:
Janina,
I think it was you who told me about the CR/LF thing. I decided to use
the .rtf format after some experimenting the last couple days. I want to
keep to a minimum the tools I need to use.
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On 4/28/2019 3:24 AM, 'Janina Sajka' via MacVisionaries wrote:
Pardon me if I'm telling you something you already know, but there's a
reason why reading text files across multiple environments can create
problems. The reason is historical. Here's the basic reason:
On Linux/Unix the line termination char is a Ctrl+J
On Macintosh it's Ctrl+M
On Windows it's both Ctrl+J and Ctrl+M together.
There are tools for converting among these formats at the command line.
On my Linux I have two apps called dos2unix and unix2dos which handle
these things.
There are apps which will spot the problem when you load a text file and
offer to do, or simply do the conversion for you on the fly. Problem
here is that you need such an app on up to three separate environments.
hth
Janina
'E.T.' via MacVisionaries writes:
Simon,
I don't know what that is but have been trying different things and have
determined I should avoid plain text formats. So I went to .rtf which may do
it. TextEdit will open that on the Mac and edited the document in TextEdit
then viewed it under Windows in MS Word and it came through fine.
The only hitch is on the iPhone when I access the document via the Files
app, Voice Dream Reader launches. I don't want that. I do have MS Word which
I ma need to activate, and Pages as well. I will activate MS Word and see
what happens. Using iCloud Drive I wish to make life easy for me (smiles)
and be able to read and edit as needed on any platform.
Hmm, Mac Vim. Will look at that too but if I can work around Voice Dream
Reader I will have it nailed down.
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On 4/27/2019 9:15 PM, Simon Fogarty wrote:
Thanks Yuma,
Good to know they have a mac version.
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On
Behalf Of Yuma Decaux
Sent: Sunday, 28 April 2019 4:15 PM
To: [email protected] <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Text Editors for Mac
Try mac vim. it works pretty well. At least on the latest version I got which
was 7.x
On 28 Apr 2019, at 2:00 pm, Simon Fogarty <[email protected]> wrote:
HI ET,
Is there a version of VIM or VI that would work on the mac?
These are linux text editors I'm just wondering if something like that might
work for you.
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Subject: Text Editors for Mac
I am taking a different path to see if I can easily create or edit text
files on the Mac that will read correctly in Windows.
TwctEdit does not insert the CR and LF codes needed by Windows. I do not
want to take extra steps to work around this such as using LineBreak which was
last updated in 2008. If I can save files as .txt in Pages that may work but
again, that means extra work.
So I am looking for accessible (and free) text editors for the Mac that just
might work.
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