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Mar 1, 2008

Mac OS X TextEdit Tip: ESC Open Autocomplete Dialog

Always cool when you’re clipping along on something and by complete mistake you discover a great trick. I’m pretty sure most OSes have a simple text editor. Mac OS X’s is called TextEdit. Frankly, I use it for just about every lightweight text-editing because it is so versatile. Last night on my commute home, I was pondering and prioritizing life as I usually do about this time of year รข?? something ’bout the upcoming spring me thinks. Well, we hit a bump in the road and my finger nailed ESC and POOF! up comes an autocomplete dialog. Thought that was some pretty awesome usability.

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Uploaded with plasq’s Skitch!Pressing ESC in TextEdit reveals an auto-complete

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  1. Jesse J. Anderson

    Wow… that is super simple and super useful… one of those little tips you somehow never hear about but after a bit of use, don’t know how you lived without it.

    Mar 1st, 2008

  2. chrispy

    Yeah, I love little surprises like this. LIke the search field under “Help” in some of Apple’s native apps. So elegant!

    Mar 1st, 2008

  3. Dan

    Sweet! I use TextEdit all the time so this will come in handy on those hard to remember words.

    Apr 18th, 2008

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