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TextWrangler: A full-featured (and now free) text editor
If you want a very powerful editor, which has everything you wanted and more, and yet for free, check out the Carbonized Emacs distributions. You can build it directly from the CVS HEAD if you want daily (sometimes hourly) bugfixes and improvements, if you've installed the free Apple developer tools (CVS Root is :ext:anoncvs@savannah.gnu.org:/cvsroot/emacs). Or if you google for "Carbonized emacs", you can find a .dmg package updated occasionally.
TextWrangler: A full-featured (and now free) text editor
But I don't want to learn the EMACS key combos, and I don't need yet another e-mail program, IRC client, CVS client, debugger, and news reader.
TextWrangler: A full-featured (and now free) text editor
You probably should, since they work in every Cocoa application.
TextWrangler: A full-featured (and now free) text editor
Mmm. As someone once said, EMACS isn't a bad OS, but to compete with Linux &c it needs a better text editor...
TextWrangler: A full-featured (and now free) text editor
You're dissing emacs because vi has "powerful regular expression commands"? Hey, emacs has those, and more. In fact, if you can't get your fingers out of "vi" mode, you can even emulate vi in an emacs buffer, and still have an emacs behind the scenes to do the rest of everything.
In fact, I haven't seen a single thing in this thread that emacs cannot do... and for free. Plus the fact that GNU emacs has a huge community behind it, so you can get books, websites, help sheets, bolt-ons, commercial training, etc etc. There's nothing even close to this in the OSX world.
TextWrangler: A full-featured (and now free) text editor
In fact, I haven't seen a single thing in this thread that emacs cannot do...
Here's something I haven't seen it do yet: Get its fans to stop talking about it like it's the second coming. I used to use emacs all the time before I switched to the mac, but at the time I switched, there wasn't a very good version to be had for OS X (the terminal version felt very wrong, and carbonised emacs was very young and fairly buggy), so I switched over to vim, and you know what? It wasn't the end of the world... Sure, I had to learn some new commands, but you get the basics down in a day or so (actually, I found that I liked the vim style of commands a little bit more). For tips and add-ons vim.org was quite helpful for a guy just starting out. Now I use TextMate. Why? Because it feels o bit more like home to me. And also because I'm not going to treat some text editor like it's a religion. ---
TextWrangler: A full-featured (and now free) text editor
You are funny! I rarely crack up reading comments, but I did reading yours, glad I wasn't drinking anything at the time!
TextWrangler: A full-featured (and now free) text editor
Yeah, and if I recall correctly, the fancy carbon version is something like 170MB!? Christ alive! You'd want it to wake you up in the morning with a cup of tea for that.*
TextWrangler: A full-featured (and now free) text editor
Merlin,
Frequent improvements is a bad thing?
Just because there are hourly bugfixes doesn't mean you are compelled to update hourly. If the current version is fine, you might not upgrade ever. If there's a particular bug that's bothering you, you might update as soon as its fixed (instead of waiting several months for some company to release a new version). It's not like a popup is going to appear every hour and not let you work until you get the new version.
Search and Replace / Auto indent
M-% for search and replace in emacs. Its funny because the auto tabbing is probably the reason I haven't switched to an OSX text editor. most native mac osx apps have great multi lingual support (emacs has multilingual support, see my hint about it) and they just look nicer ;) . But the auto indent is such a time saver for me, it helps you to find missing parens or ;'s. And I'm sure if it is something that you don't want you can always get rid of it. |
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