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    It depends on your definition of "text editor". If you don't care for all that formatting stuff TextEdit offers, but just want plain text editing, go with the editor: vim (or gvim). It also autosaves unnamed buffers; reopen them after a crash with :recover. Being a Mac user since the 1980s, vim first felt strange to me, but nowadays I won't miss it anymore, even using vim on the iPhone ... Commented Sep 24, 2019 at 6:38
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    I'm surprised to hear that text editors don't save intermediate work. Perhaps I've been fortunate with vi (and latterly vim and OpenOffice/LibreOffice) but I'd assumed it was standard practice. Commented Sep 24, 2019 at 7:01
  • It doesn't look like vim can work with more than one text file (like some sort of tabs) at once, can it? Commented Sep 24, 2019 at 20:35
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    @sequence I believe gvim can do so, but my usual approach is either one vi[m] per window or occasionally vimdiff in a very large one. Commented Sep 25, 2019 at 10:55