[Rails] Re: editors

[Rob E. Barksdale]

Two thumbs up for jEdit!

I work in a WinDoze shop by day and find I am able to use jEdit 
anywhere.  The number of plug-ins offered by its community is huge.   
You will find your needs met if you are looking for a cross-platform 
solution.

However, as a long time Mac user, I find myself relying on BBEdit when I 
want to work on my beloved Mac OS X.  I have to admit that I have looked 
at Textmate briefly, however, I immediately jumped back to BBEdit.  
Maybe one day I will give it a fair trial run.  In the meantime, if you 
are looking to keep expenses to the minimum, TextWangler is worth 
checking out: http://www.barebones.com/products/textwrangler/

Rob E. Barksdale



James G. Stallings II wrote:

> Stefan Arentz wrote:
>
>>
>> On Jan 30, 2005, at 7:24 AM, James G. Stallings II wrote:
>>
>>> You guys might want to give jEdit (http://www.jedit.org) a try. Not 
>>> too shabby, and its free.
>>
>>
>>
>> This might sound odd, but I find myself either using text based tools 
>> (emacs) or real Cocoa apps. Even if something like jedit has really 
>> nice features, it is the non-standard widgets, the weird non-OSX GUI 
>> annoyences, the bad integration with the rest of the system (what, no 
>> spel checker in the code editor?) that make me delete those apps 
>> pretty quickly :-)
>>
>> TextMate shines in being a native app. I'll give it a bit more time 
>> to evaluate :-)
>>
>>  S.
>>
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>
>
> You must have missed the part where it says most extended fuctionality 
> is added by way of of a plugin manager. You know, things like 
> spellcheck and new language syntax modules.
>
> I'm an expert with vi,  have used it for years on linux/solaris and vi 
> running in a mac terminal window is just nothing short of unsatifying. 
> Jedit lets me edit multiple files visually, good copy and paste, 
> autosaves, etc. I dunno why I'm evangelising it - just thought some of 
> you might get some use out of it. Plus not having to shell out $$$ for 
> it is a big feature where I live.
>
> Twitch
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