TextEdit is a small time text editing application for Mac OSX but some people say that it is too light weight. Here are a few setbacks in TextEdit, that will make you think twice before you got for this application;
- It doesn’t have a word count feature, so all users who are in the habit of staring down after typing every few sentences, are going to have a hard time. But there is a solution to it, you can run an AppleScript that is going to add a word and character count pop up dialog for you.
o Just go to your TextEdit settings and open up the script menu. Set your “Word_Count” to count words of your Document 1 and then, set your Char_Count to do the same thing.
o Set Show_Words option to (word_count as string(s)) and set the words option to – (char_count as string(s)).
o Later on, set the Dialog_Title to (TextEdit Word_Count) and let all those changes be displayed through a button. Display the “Show_Words” option with any icon of your choice. Normally, I’d go for Icon 1, but you can go for anything you are okay with. Press the “Okay” button and you are all set to go.
But there are always other ways to do the same thing and you can feel free to make changes of your own choice. In addition, there are a lot of TextEdit scripts, that let you tweak its settings in accordance to your preferences so there is no harm in trying out a few of the most popular downloads.
