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?) > > 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).
Probably best in the future to post to R-SIG-Mac. The editor in the Mac-GUI works well. Has parenthesis, bracket and ellipsis matching which is very helpful. Also tab-completion thanks to the continuing effors to Simon Urbanek and Hans-Joerg Bibiko and probably others whose contributions are too subtle for for my aging brane. You can also get R-specific macro behaviors with TextWrangler. The default editor defined by options() is "vi" which has many powerful features as well. (I do not think I am interacting with 'vi' inside the editing panels that pop up from the GUI, although I would be happy to be corrected on this point.) Emacs is a UNIX standard and the Mac is yet-another-Unix-boxen. Many Mac users are also happy with R-Studio. -- David Winsemius, MD Alameda, CA, USA ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
