[R] Mac Text editors

[David Winsemius]

On Sep 26, 2012, at 5:48 PM, Steven Wolf wrote:

> Hi everyone,
> 
> I've recently moved from using a windows machine to a Mac (some might call it an upgrade, others not…I'll let you be the judge).  Once I started using Notepad ++ on my windows machine, I really began to like it.  Unfortunately, I'm not sure what the free text editor options are for the Mac (Notepad ++ is windows only).  I've dabbled with Linux before and used Emacs/ESS there.  However, I seem to remember fighting pretty hard to make that work and the OSX file structure isn't that intuitive to me yet.  (For example, where is my .emacs file?)  

Further point. Just as with Windoze, your dot-files are hidden by Finder.app. You can see them with terminal or do as I do and unhide them (and never trash any).

Run this in a terminal session:

defaults write com.apple.Finder AppleShowAllFiles YES


# and <pt>-click-hold> on Dock-Finder-icon, choose relaunch


> 
> What text editors are best for the Mac, keeping in mind that I'm probably going to use them via the command line interface (e.g. X11 or Terminal).
> 
> Thanks!
> -Steve
> 
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David Winsemius, MD
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