Crashing of text editor?

[Charles Martin]

> Subject: [X Newbies] Crashing of text editor?
>
> What on earth would make an app as benign a BBEdit Lite crash just
> while I am typing?

No idea. A memory leak? You found a secret key combo that induces a 
quit? A bug in the program? Couldn't say.

> How does one fix BBEdit when it won't open?

One trashes the preference file, and if that doesn't work one trashes 
the pref file AND re-installs the app.

> All my coding is done in it and I'll be verily toasted if I can't get
> it to work.
> I don't like the built-in editor because it does funny things with the
> text,  while BBEdit is text only and stays that way.
>
I assume you are talking about TextEdit. If that's the case, I find it 
rather surprising that you didn't know TextEdit can easily be set to 
"plain-text" mode via a menu command. You probably have it in "Rich 
Text" mode by default.

_Chas_

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