I love the new dark mode. I even bought the dark mode extension for safari (before Mojave).
Xcode is great too. but textEdit...
I do have some other like Atom and bbEdit but I like to use textEdit.
How can I search in terminal to see if I could find a hidden dark mode not activated yet ?
You can set dark mode in TextEdit. From the menu bar, go to Format -> Fonts -> Show Fonts. From here, you can set both the text color and background color.
EDIT: It appears you can't set the new font settings as defaults, but it's at least an option if you want to use TextEdit.
Apple did not make the default page background in Pages black, and has not done so for TextEdit. There is no override available in TextEdit that provides a Dark mode document window too.
Use BBEdit, Sublime Text 3, or any other real programmer's editor that supports a full dark document window.
I use many different text editor but for a quick note, where I can drop a picture and save it in a format that can be read by many software, I used textedit.
l tried many way to search for a hidden pref in terminal but so far no luck.
I am very interested by something like that
Setting System/App parameters from terminal
to search for hidden preference
thank you.
I am now more interested how to find that
in my first post my question was
How can I search in terminal to see if I could find a hidden dark mode not activated yet ?
now I would like to make it
How can I search in terminal to find a hidden preference not accessible by the GUI.
You're welcome. We seem to be having a communication problem. There is no way to search for something that doesn't exist. It's like asking, how can I search for the hidden preference that allows Preview to turn into Microsoft Office.
my text was written, I press Reply but I press the one top and lost everything
English is definitely not my primary langage, sorry :-)
let's forget about dark mode
for example, screen capture, I can create a folder name Capture in Documents and do
defaults write com.apple.screencapture location ~/Documents/Capture/
or do change the file type of screen capture with
defaults write com.apple.screencapture type PDF;killall SystemUIServer
this way I would change preferences that are not available in the GUI.
and over the year, I have seen many functionality not available for prime time being available through those
like dark mode in high Sierra
defaults write -g NSWindowDarkChocolate -bool TRUE
is the only way to search for those are with
defaults read
or other way exist
like maybe a grep that scan inside file for special keyword
That is not dark mode. It is setting the document background color to black which stays with the document. Dark mode is set in System Preferences : General, and neither TextEdit, nor Pages provide a black document background as a Dark mode feature.
my question move to another subject but was not respond.
I erase my computer at least twice a year, and I build a script to change my preference by a bash script.
I look into plist file but searching on the web, I found setting that are not listed in the plist.
So with defaults read , I did found more, but I was hoping to find another command probably with grep to find more.
but the original question was answered long time ago, so I mark the discussion closed and I might stated another thread one day about how to search for those hidden preference .
Thank you
There is no hidden preference that would modify TextEdit.
how would a search for it, let say for another app, or, mostly another preference.
Apps have to be coded to use Dark Mode. There are no hidden preferences. It's up to the developers to implement Dark Mode or not. It's not just a simple change a preference.
I assumed with the depth of the discussion here that people would know that. I hadn't considered new users, but I'm already past the 15 minute edit window for that reply.
I dit try did, change the pref in TextEdit, and visually it work. the sad thing is the file is saved that way.
is there a hidden Dark Mode in textEdit
