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TextEdit with crash recovery?

Does anyone know of a lightweight editor for the Mac, a la TextEdit, but with crash recovery or auto save?

For what will hopefully be the last time tonight, my Mac crashed and I had some unsaved notes in TextEdit. I lose so much time racking my brain trying to think what they were... but they didn't seem worth saving at the time. Arg.

TOPICS: Mac OS X
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I don't know about the...

I don't know about the auto-save feature, which is the important thing you're looking for ;) but here a few other text editors:

TextWrangler Here's a link that contains many more: http://www.pure-mac.com/textword.html

 
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