Writing HTML, etc, and text edit-help requested

[Jeraldo]

Learning HTML.
You already know what happens with Text Edit.
Anything saved as txt OR html still opens they way it would appear in a browser when opening in TextEdit.

The TextEdit preferences:

They seem to be set correctly.

Open and Save:
Ignore rich text commands in HTML files
...........................................in RSS files

New Document:
Plain Plain Text

I using 10.6.8
and TextEdit 1.6

Suggestions? Again, whether saved as html or txt files they still open in TextEdit as if in a browser.
Thanks!

[Jeraldo]

I don't understand it. With the suffix htm or html
I can write in TextEdit, open things in a browser-everything appears as it should.
I open it again in TextEdit, I get the text.
I can make changes.
I can do this three or four times.
Then inexplicably, the next time it opens in TextEdit it appears as it would in a Browser, and thereafter any more HTML writing is gone.
The only thing that's happening is the same file is opened repeatedly in a browser and repeatedly in TextEdit.

[Jeraldo]

The problem seems to have solved itself.
Did some utility disk housekeeping, and resets of preferences, and it's working consistently.
I wouldn't hazard a guess on the cause nor the solution to the problem.

[Guy Johnson]

It's our little gremlin friends.

[muzines]

Do yourself a favour: don't use TextEdit.

A good text editor is a beautiful thing. If you can't stretch to BBEdit or TextMate, then grab the free lite version of BBEdit:

http://ash.barebones.com/TextWrangler_4.0.1.dmg

[Jeraldo]

Thank you for the suggestions, I'm already convinced!

[james_ogl]

I've recently started to use a nice code editor called
Sublime Text 2 - I think they're still working on it, but at the moment it's free to use and if you like it - it's not that expensive to buy.

The one downside is that it doesn't have code hinting built in at the monent which means it's not going to help you by giving hints.

It's worth a look even just for the nice colour schemes

[james_ogl]

Sorry I messed up the address to the link I posted - should have been this: Sublime Text 2