I use SubEthaEdit for this, but you can also set in TextEdit's preferences for new documents to default to plain text. Source: over 2 years ago
And on a Mac this is where I fail to see the market for it, particularly at $100. If you just want something lightweight to open text files but still have some basic syntax highlighting, there are heaps of choices that are better Mac apps. I'd suggest any/all of these three (all of which happen to be OSS but that's not why I recommend them - I didn't actually realise until now that they all are) - SubEthaEdit:... - Source: Hacker News / almost 3 years ago
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