2 thoughts on “ How to edit files in TextEdit from the OS X Terminal ” Strod August 19, 2015 at 6:15 pm. Topher mentions BBEdit and its little sibling TextWrangler. If you live frequently in the Terminal, a premise in the article, then most certainly you are the kind of user that would really benefit from a serious text editor like either of those two. Using TextEdit to open files created with Microsoft Word or OpenOffice usually messes up the formatting and layout of the document. If you want to prevent TextEdit from opening your text documents, you can either change the default application using the Get Info menu or uninstall TextEdit from your Mac to get rid of it completely.

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