On Sep 26, 2012, at 6:06 PM, David Winsemius wrote:

> 
> 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

Sorry. I do not know how to relaunch in Snow Leopard. Those direction for 
relaunching Finder.app worked in Leopard but when I just checked, no longer 
seem to.
> 
> 
> # 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
>> 
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> 
> David Winsemius, MD
> Alameda, CA, USA
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