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One thing I dislike about Texpad is their faulty “auto-sense” algorithm and the developer insists on not providing manually setting the default engine. Any situation that is not known to the developer and their auto sense rules will most likely default in xelatex, and that happens VERY often. Even if the input file is made for LuaLaTeX, using style files specific to that engine, it auto senses to xelatex and requires manually stopping auto-sense and then specify the correct engine, each time a new file is opened. The same thing happens when the app sees an input text in a language that the developer didn’t consider. I suggested to the developer several times to create a manual default engine option, but they religiously insists on their auto sense algorithm and not allowing a user to specify a default engine (unless that is xelatex, because that’s what it defaults to).If you are a LuaLaTeX user, or write documents that includes languages other than English, your chance of getting frustrated with this app is high.

There are many powerful third party apps dedicated to plain text and coding on the Mac — options like BBEdit, TextWrangler, TextMate, Sublime Text, and Coda come to mind — but TextEdit is free.

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In the Windows command prompt, I can type notepad helloworld.cpp which will then create a .cpp file with the name helloworld and open up Notepad for me.

Is there a similar function for Mac Terminal, preferably with Textmate or Textedit?

I'm running Mac OS X Lion 10.7, with Xcode developers tool.

Vito Gentile

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There are plenty of ways. Try:

vi <filename you want to save or open.cpp>,
pico,
Open /Applications/TextEdit.app <filename>.

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The option -e is used to open the file <filename> with TextEdit.

Vito GentileVito Gentile

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Simply use open <filename> command as described in this article. It will open an app associated with the file type.

Use open -e to open /Applications/TextEdit

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About some of the previous suggestions here - you can use open command combined with a flag to open a file with specific application:

open -a [appname] [filename]

but if [filename] doesn't exist it displays an error the file doesn't exists or something like that, and doesn't create the required file, as you have requested.

Write the following to your ~/.bashrc file (if that file doesn't exists, you can create it by writing touch ~/.bashrc inside the terminal):

And use it like this:

open2 [appname] [filename]

Note that appname is an application in your installed application folder (/Applications).

The command touch creates you the required file (don't worry, if the file exists it won't remove / reset the current file, only redefine the modification time to the current time).

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If your using text mate you can set it up to work with terminal

Taken from

Once you've got mate into your path you can type the following into the terminal

if you want text mate to display all files in a folder as a project drawer

user1873471

The problem with:

is that you have no control on the TextEdit.app modes: Plain Text or RichText.

E.g. if you try to open an HTML file, TextEdit will open it in the Rich Text mode, not in the Plain Text mode, as expected. Then switching to the Plain Text mode will not show the HTML tags.
I could not find a Terminal command to activate the Open option:

or the Preference setting:

As far as I can see, even an osascript won't solve the case.

This is unfortunate since TextEdit.app is the only text editor that is present for sure. Not all Mac users have installed BBedit, TextMate, or any other third party editor and even less users have defined a 'default editor'.

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Go to Preferences (⌘+,) & install shell support.

Then you could open any files from terminal with:

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