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 > > _______________________________ > Steven Wolf > Research Associate > CREATE for STEM Institute > 115 H Erickson Hall > Michigan State University > > ______________________________________________ > 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. 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.
