OT: OS X editors (was Re: [Gllug] ADVERT: Free Access to IBM Mainframe running Linux)

[Simon Stewart]

On Wednesday, Oct 16, 2002, at 10:52 Europe/London, Wulf 
Forrester-Barker wrote:

> Are you after a native app in order to benefit from all the 
> font-anti-aliasing etc?

I don't like the feel of the terminal app, and since OS X doesn't 
present itself as a rootless X server (and why not?) both emacs and 
vi(m) try and run in it.

> I guess I'm still a bit puzzled as to why a natively compiled open 
> source text editor wouldn't do the business.

Show me one that fits into the OS X look and feel and I'll leap on it.

Your reasons for learning vi are perfectly valid, but I know enough to 
get by when presented with it on a platform, and I'm trying to "go 
native" in OS X. My determination is weakening, though, cos I miss 
mutt. And a decent full screen emacs session ;)

> However, whatever you want, man ;-) Not having yet even touched an OS X
> box I'll now quietly step back and watch the rest of the conversation,
> since I know nothing about native applications for it.

It's a nice place to be. A little slow and clunky, but every update to 
it makes it that little bit more polished and smoother. I especially 
like the concept of "services" --- little apps that sit in the apple 
menu, and can be used in any program. For example, I can highlight a 
word, select the dictionary service, and OS X will open my favourite 
web browser and look up the definition of the word. Obviously, that's a 
basic example, but you get the idea.

Cheers,

Simon


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