Mac markdown editor that saves as .txt

[Spencer Wysinger]

Let's also give some love to TextMate, one of the best Mac editors around (tho it costs money).  They have a Markdown bundle that does lots of neat things and, as dictated by the name, it works exclusively with plain text files.

Spencer


On Feb 2, 2012, at 1:29 AM, Lasar Liepins wrote:


> Hi,

>

> ByWord, iA Writer and probably most of the other apps you mentioned

> will by default save to .md or .mdown files, but that is just the

> file suffix. These files ARE plain text.

>

> It's just a way to distinguish between "normal" plain text files and

> markdown-formatted plain text files.

>

> Rename your file.md to file.txt and it will work just as well. When saving

> a new document the apps should prompt you for a file name that ends in

> .md as well (unless you have that "hide suffix" checkbox checked), you

> can replace it with .txt right away.

>

> Greetings,

>

> _Lasar

>

> On 2012-02-02, at 01:02, Chris Lott wrote:

>

>> On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 2:48 PM, Nicole C <ncat999 at gmail.com> wrote:

>>>

>>> What I want is an attractive Mac app for writing (primarily blog posts and

>>> emails) that saves its files as .txt . Most of them save as .md or .markdown

>>> instead, and since there doesn't seem to be a true markdown editor for

>>> Android yet, using these programs isn't compatible with my phone.

>>

>> Is this just an issue that the Android app can't be told to open files

>> with different extensions?

>>

>> It annoys me that so many Markdown editors won't allow for arbitrary

>> file extensions, though a few had come around last I looked.

>>

>> c

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>

>

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