Not that I’m aware of, but I know AppleScript  fairly well. What are you trying 
to do?

The scripting dictionary for TextEdit is fairly limited. The application only 
has a document object and the document object has a standard suite text object. 
You can create attachment object and place them in a part of the text. I'm not 
very familiar with the possible attributed strings in text objects, but I 
suspect that you can set things like number and bulleted lists, font info and 
justification. 

So, if you want to create a VO key that opens textedit and creates a new 
document with the date in it and a first line of Notes for Today. That should 
be fairly 
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> On Jun 29, 2022, at 3:00 PM, christopher moore <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> Are there any tutorials on apple-script?  I want to write a simple keyboard 
> macro for textEdit.
> simple.
If you want something that will enter Jonathan C Cohn every time you type xic 
then AppleScript is not the right tool, and for that matter, since TextEdit 
uses the standard text editing widget that most Apple based tools use for text, 
some more advanced functions might be better handled with the text input tools 
suite this is where the controls that move you to the end of line when you type 
control-E and the beginning of line with control-A are defined.

> TIA
> Chris
> 
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