Mojave Dark Mode users — HeadsUp warning with TextEdit and other text editors

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C'mon Patrick..... All you have to do is select "View" from the top menu and change it back to a white background. Nothing mysterious about that. Lots of folks have been complaining that Apple has not implemented "Dark Mode" for all their apps. And now they finally do it for "TextEdit" and a blogger site writes about it and complains.

Hey... Apple does a lot of things I don't like but some bloggers and web sites make more of a big deal about it than they should.
 
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C'mon Patrick..... All you have to do is select "View" from the top menu and change it back to a white background. Nothing mysterious about that.


But then one's not exactly in "Dark Mode" as I understand how it's supposed to work, buy my God, that reasoning and solution sounds like an Apple software engineer rationalizing how it's intended to work. :Mischievous: :Evil:

Anyway, a fix for those who possibly might get caught in the situation.



Hey... Apple does a lot of things I don't like but some bloggers and web sites make more of a big deal about it than they should.
+1. I sure have to agree with that. :Smirk:





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Wow, is that article a big whine over almost nothing! He's moving text formatted in various ways from application to application, swapping in and out of Dark Mode. He's made so many transitions between different products it makes your head swim just trying to keep up. And in the end all of the problems he lays at the feet of Apple, when, in fact, he's got at least three developers involved: Apple, Microsoft and whoever developed the other text editor he used. And those other products have just as much responsibility for displaying his text as Apple does. And one click cures it all, as Charlie said. Apple deserves criticism when they really make a mistake, but this ain't it.
 
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Well that is our Patrick, Jake, stuck in the mire of old operating systems like Mavericks and NOTHING Apple does is ever any good. You know how things work ~ bad news sells.
 
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I wasn't criticizing Patrick, but the author of that article. Dark Mode is new, it will take some time for the wrinkles to work out. Personally, I don't use Dark Mode but that article was a pitiful whining complaint that moving text from Word to TextEdit to whatever, changed. Sure it did, and so will opening a Word document with anything complex in it in TextEdit, and Pages, and several other applications I can think of. But it's just not fair to pillory Apple because Microsoft or some other developer hasn't gotten up to speed.
 
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Well that is our Patrick, Jake, stuck in the mire of old operating systems like Mavericks and NOTHING Apple does is ever any good. You know how things work ~ bad news sells.



Well Harry, I'd say you missed the boat big time on that one criticism and old operating systems, especially considering that Dark Mode only became an option with Mojave. Not exactly an old Mac operating system!!! :Not-Amused:





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Hey Harry:

Things starting to heat up down below? In another 10 days it will be Summer where you are and Winter up here. And where Jake lives, he might see some snow. :) Patrick lives on the Wet Coast where they never see snow but plenty of rain. LOL.
 
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Patrick lives on the Wet Coast where they never see snow but plenty of rain. LOL.


The rain part is true considering a lot of the area is officially Rain Forrest and often referred to as the Wet Coast, but we can end up with some pretty good dumps of snow but not really a regular thing in our immediate area, and the Tourist Info Center tries to not even mention the white stuff except for our winter ski resort areas.

At least we'er not getting hit with the snowstorms that so many parts in the Southeast US have received or other milder parts with all their rain and flooding. Not good.







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We just dodged the big storm that passed south of us. About 10 miles south of me there was a LOT of snow. But we were dry, although cold. 28F for the highs for two days in a row.
 
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Summer started December 1 Charlie.

We organise our year summer December 1, Autumn (Fall) March 1, Winter June 1 and Spring September 1.
 
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Summer started December 1 Charlie.

We organise our year summer December 1, Autumn (Fall) March 1, Winter June 1 and Spring September 1.



That makes much more sense than using the Equinoxs and Solstices dates for the beginning of each season as they tend to do up here. Heck the season is almost half over using that as a standard.

They hardly even use the "Meteorological Start" as a reference time, especially for the start of any of them.

https://www.almanac.com/content/first-day-seasons#





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BTW: Getting back on topic:
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Just ignore, the post got just got duplicated below.
 
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BTW: Getting back on topic:
Here's a much calmer and rational article about How to Enable TextEdit Dark Mode on Mac
Summary:
For those of us who use TextEdit as a Notepad type of app with plain text as the default, the new dark theme works well enough, though it’s not nearly as refined as something like the dark themes in BBEdit are.

Dark mode support arrived in TextEdit with MacOS Mojave 10.14.2 and presumably will continue into future releases of Mac system software and TextEdit as well. Thus if you have not updated to MacOS Mojave 10.14.2 (or later) yet, you will not find this dark background feature available in TextEdit.
How to Enable TextEdit Dark Mode on Mac

As mentioned, the last most recent 10.14.2 as a minimum is required for it to work.

PS: Some user comments are interesting about the update that isn't available!!







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