
PlistEdit Pro provides several ways to customize the program to the way you work. You can access these preferences by selecting the Preferences menu item in the PlistEdit Pro menu, or by pressing command-comma.
General tab
Display tab
Placeholder |
Description |
%% |
a '%' character |
%a |
abbreviated weekday name |
%A |
full weekday name |
%b |
abbreviated month name |
%B |
full month name |
%c |
shorthand for "%X %x", the locale format for date and time |
%d |
day of the month as a decimal number (01-31) |
%e |
same as %d but does not print the leading 0 for days 1 through 9 (unlike strftime(), does not print a leading space) |
%F |
milliseconds as a decimal number (000-999) |
%H |
hour based on a 24-hour clock as a decimal number (00-23) |
%I |
hour based on a 12-hour clock as a decimal number (01-12) |
%j |
day of the year as a decimal number (001-366) |
%m |
month as a decimal number (01-12) |
%M |
minute as a decimal number (00-59) |
%p |
AM/PM designation for the locale |
%S |
second as a decimal number (00-59) |
%w |
weekday as a decimal number (0-6), where Sunday is 0 |
%x |
date using the date representation for the locale, including the time zone (produces different results from strftime()) |
%X |
time using the time representation for the locale (produces different results from strftime()) |
%y |
year without century (00-99) |
%Y |
year with century (such as 1990) |
%Z |
time zone name (such as Pacific Daylight Time; produces different results from strftime()) |
%z |
time zone offset in hours and minutes from GMT (HHMM) |
Definitions tab
This tab displays all the structure definitions that are installed on your system. Refer to "Managing installed structure definitions" for more details on this tab.
Browsing tab
This tab contains settings that affect property list browsers. When creating a new browser from a folder, or adding new items to an existing browser window, you can tell PlistEdit Pro what file extensions to scan the newly added folder for. Only files that match an extension in the list will be added. PlistEdit Pro can also read the 'plst' resource from the resource fork of a file (used by non-bundled Carbon applications). Checking the "Scan resource forks" checkbox will add any file that has a resource fork with a 'plst' resource whose ID is 0. Be aware that enabling this option can cause the scanning process to take significantly longer.