Preferences (Direct)

Note: Preference options may differ based on edition.

General

Application

Apply cleaner to entire contents when no selection

Enable to automatically apply selected cleaner to the entire document (or text contents) when no selection is found. If option is disabled, cleaners will only be applied if there is a selection.

Quit application when last window is closed

Enable to automatically quit the application when the last text document is closed. This can be useful when the Clipboard Workspace (see below) is disabled.

Sort Items in Built-in Groups

Custom cleaners are automatically sorted alphabetically. Enable this option to also sort the built-in groups alphabetically.

Remember most recently used items

Specify the number of items to keep in recently used items menu. The default is 10.

Clipboard Workspace

Specifies whether to use Clipboard Workspace and what format the text should be:

Default group

Specify the default group to display when a new window is created, whether it is the clipboard workspace, a new document or an opened document. Once the window is created, you can change the group displayed.

MyScrub shortcut

Specify which cleaner to use when MyScrub is called. This may be Scrub (default) or any custom cleaner you create.

New Documents

Specify the type of document to create by default (cmd-N).

Note: You can also directly create either a rich text document (ctrl-cmd-N) or a plain text document (opt-cmd-N), bypassing this preference.

Don’t warn when switching from rich to plain text

Switching converting a document from rich text to plain text will throw away any style information with the text. Normally a warning is put up every time the conversion is selected. Enable this option to perform the conversion without a warning.

Append “.txt” extension to plain text files

Option that mimics TextEdit’s save option for plain text. Enable to automatically append the “.txt” extension when no extension is given. A plain text document saved as “MyDocument” becomes “MyDocument.txt”. If you specify an extension, TextSoap will use it instead. A plain text document named “MyDocument.html” stays unchanged.


Text Editor

These options apply to default values for text editor. This applies to both Clipboard Workspace and Text documents. Once the editor has been created, you can change many of these options via the Edit or View menu.

Options

Spelling

Enable to allow for automatic correction of words with the spell checker.

Substitutions

Default zoom

Specifies the default zoom to use when displaying new or opened documents.

Rich Text Font

Specify the default font when creating new Rich text editor. If the editor (for either Clipboard Workspace or Text documents) is a plain text editor, it will use Plain Text Font.

Plain Text Font

Specify the default font when creating or opening plain text documents.


Appearance

Invisibles

Set the color used to display invisible characters, such as spaces, tabs, returns, etc. Click “Default” button to reset.

Current Line Color

Specify the line color to use to highlight the current line. The color selected is blended together (to insure text remains readable), so the result of this is shown next to the color selection button. Click “Default” to reset to the original value.

Action Color Style

Specify whether to use the normal colors for actions within a custom cleaner or to use a lighter variation.

Toolbar

Specify the style of toolbar (icon only, text only, icon & text) and size (large or small). These are applied across all toolbars in the app.


Updates

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Automatically check for updates

Recommended to remain on. When selected, this option will regularly check for any software updates.

Check Now

Immediately check for any updates available.

Show Beta Releases

When selected, this option will include beta updates as well as official updates. Recommended only for advanced users.


Advanced

These options are for some more advanced functionality and aren’t needed by most people. The following options will require a relaunching of the application to take full effect.

Additionally, there are some options to quit or re-launch internal components. For the most part, you won’t need to use these.


TextSoap Menu


OS X Services

If you have enabled the option to show OS X Services preference pane in the Advanced pane, you can setup customized Services.

Once again, we recommend using TextSoap Menu and AppleScript as integration options over OS X Services, which has many limitations and long standing issues.