Apple

I have 3 issues with TextEdit (for now):

1) Can't Save a file... [edited for brevity]

Hey Jean-Christophe,

A very disgusting bug that's been with us for about 3 iterations of macOS and still not fixed...

The workaround is to “touch” the file before saving.

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# Auth: Christopher Stone

# dCre: 2017/04/24 01:09

# dMod: 2017/04/24 01:46

# Appl: TextEdit, Finder

# Task: Create a new TextEdit document and save it on the Desktop

# : Works around a very nasty bug in macOS.

# Libs: None

# Osax: None

# Tags: @Applescript, @Script, @Finder, @TextEdit, @ccstone, @Save, @Bug, @WorkAround

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set destPath to (path to desktop folder as text) & "test_doc.rtf"

set someText to "Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country."

close access (open for access destPath)

tell application "TextEdit"

activate

make new document with properties {text:someText}

tell front document

save in file destPath

end tell

tell application "Finder"

reveal destPath as alias

end tell

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You pointed out the basics of this to someone last month.

2) … there does not seem to be a way to create a file in a different file formats (ex. txt is the default is rtf, etc.)

This seems to work:

save as "com.apple.rtfd" in file destPath

3) I can't seem to figure out how to access the "Open Link" contextual menu that appears when right-clicking on a link inside a RTF file...

References:
	>TextEdit things (From: Jean-Christophe Helary <email@hidden>)