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Searching with regular expressions: the mighty regex

How you can use regexes to make search more powerful and reduce the number of irrelevant entries it returns.

April 20, 2024 Macs, Technology

Rendering Rich Text in Dark Mode

A proposal for ensuring consistent display of Rich Text across apps and tools in macOS, and elsewhere.

December 10, 2018 Macs, Technology

Last Week on my Mac: Crippling Rich Text with Dark Mode

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Mojave’s handling of Rich Text in Dark Mode is now broken in several places, including the new version of TextEdit, in QuickLook, and Pages.

December 9, 2018 Macs, Technology

Comparing files: FileMerge, opendiff, and BBEdit

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How would you compare two text files to see what differences are between them? It’s still a common task, for which FileMerge and BBEdit can be excellent solutions.

April 14, 2018 Macs, Technology

Regex: searching with regular expressions

Stop wasting time wading through hundreds of hits: refine your text searches using regex, as supported by many Mac apps.

August 4, 2017 Language, Macs, Technology

Winter Festival of Artisanal Software

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Holiday price reductions on many of the best software products for macOS: crafted to empower rather than dispirit.

December 16, 2016 General, Language, Macs, Technology

Summerfest 2016: the Summer Artisanal Software Festival

A summer sale of finely crafted tools for writers, thinkers, and many others.

June 19, 2016 General, Language, Life, Macs, Painting, Technology

Q&A: Mixed Arabic and Roman script

Word documents and PDFs containing mixed Arabic and Roman scripts do not display correctly. Why?

October 1, 2015 Macs, Technology

Q&A: Which writing tool?

Which is the best working environment for developing and writing non-fiction books?

August 5, 2015 Macs, Technology

Regular Expressions

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Regular Expressions turn search terms into a programming language. Are they just for Unix wizards?

July 26, 2015 Macs, Technology

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