Editing Teams on a Mac for JavaBBowl

[Biff Smackwell]

I did a search for this but didn't find anything. If there's already a topic out there, just point me towards it.

I tried editing a team .html file in MS Word, but quickly found out that Word changes the file after saving it. It adds a lot of crap in the beginning of the file (and possibly elsewhere), making the file unreadable by JavaBBowl. None of the other programs I have have allowed me to successfuly edit the files, so if any other Mac users out there have edited a team file, could you let me know what program you used? Thanks.

[BadMrMojo]

Yay! Another refugee from the Wintel Zombies!

The best thing you can get for your mac no matter what you do is get BBEdit. If you (or a close friend) has an academic ID, you can get it reasonably cheap. It is quite simply the world's greatest text editor (as opposed to the world's most bloated Word processor). I use it for a whole lot more than I can put in a single post under Massachusetts law.

The older, free version is still available as well. Even better.

Lesson to you all? Never use Word, given a choice.

{edit: Barebones Software apparently dropped BBEdit Lite to make another free editor, Textwrangler. I haven't used it myself, but I'd try that first, for the extra features. It sounds like a similar, more updated and supported version of the same thing, with a different name.}

[Grumbledook]

don't you have the goodness of notepad on macs?

[BadMrMojo]

Well, yeah... Textedit... but trust me. Get yerself BBEdit Lite or (maybe?) Textwrangler. Way better.

[Biff Smackwell]

Hmm. I saw TextWrangler the other day... didn't even think to pick it up. I'll give it a try.

I'm using OSX, and there's no SimpleText. TextEdit opens up the file, but shows the frames of the html and isn't editable. I'll let you know how TextWrangler goes.

[neoliminal]

BBEdit mate, that's your best bet. Even if you just get the "lite" version.