Getting information about documents

In the document inspector, you can view various information concerning your document.

  1. Choose File > Get Info.
  2. To close the inspector view, drag the view separator to the window edge, or choose File > Get Info again.

Clicking the Get Info icon on the toolbar also opens the same view.

The information displayed in the inspector is as follows:

CreatedThe file creation date and time.
ModifiedThe file modification date and time.
File SizeThe size of the file.
OwnerThe user name of the owner of the file.
PermissionThe file privilege.
Full PathThe absolute path to the file in UNIX format.
EncodingThe current selected encoding.
Line EndingsThe current selected line endings.
LinesThe number of lines in the document (and the selection).
CharactersThe number of characters in the document (and the selection).
LengthThe length of string in UTF-16 in the document (and the selection).
WordsThe number of words in the document (and the selection). The current language in the Spelling panel will be used to interpret words.
LocationThe caret-position described in the number of characters.
Current LineThe line number of the line containing the caret.
ColumnThe caret-position from the head of the current line.
UnicodeThe Unicode hexadecimal code (UTF-16) for the character (displayed only when one character is selected).