

#Looking textmate code
OK that's what I thought, Atom, Sublime, and VS Code are not plain text editors by default, they are code editors. In terms of editors that come preinstalled on the Mac without any bells and whistles, I think Nano would probably fit the bill: pages, where there is no separation between content and formatting. This is very different from rich-text, a-la. In either case, though, you are working with plain text in terms of what you are actually saving to a file, and then that file either renders to an output format when viewed in an appropriate viewer (a web browser, in the case of HTML) or is otherwise compiled in some fashion or other. that make working with various programming and markup/down languages easier. Notepad is not more plain text than these other editors, it's just a more barebones editor that lacks things like syntax highlighting, auto indent, auto-completion, in-line preview, etc. This includes syntax highlighting, and the display of any graphics referenced in, say, the tags of your HTML file. Text editors and IDE's (e.g., Emacs, Vim, Sublime Tex, Textmate, etc.) all operate in plain text mode in the sense that they do not write formatting information back to the files that they are working in. Plain text is just text that does not store any information in its file format about typeface (though it *does* store information about encoding-e.g., UTF-8), and which cannot render graphics and the like.
