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I'm trying to do what I used to regularly do with notepad on Windows, copy a bunch of text from another program into Notepad so I could lose the text formatting, then copy into a code editor or other program as plain text.
TextEdit claims to have a option to lose the formatting, but it doesn't work completely as the single quotes around a 'word' are still the fancy ones, i.e. open-quote and close-quote. Even if I delete the quoted word completely and type in from scratch, textedit still automatically converts my plain single quotes into the fancy ones as soon as it realizes that I am surrounding a word with the quotes.
What program can I use to get the fancy quotes to disappear and just show the plan single quote that code compilers understand?
Thanks. John
John K
Posted 2016-06-01T23:39:13.620
Reputation: 1
Try Find and Replace: select and copy the quotation mark and paste it in Find what and write in Replace with what you need – Sam – 2016-06-02T08:25:15.540
Quotes problem in Mavericks (or TextEdit)? – DavidPostill – 2016-06-02T10:51:45.017