[R] Mac Text editors

[David Winsemius]

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

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> On Sep 26, 2012, at 5:48 PM, Steven Wolf wrote:
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>> Hi everyone,
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>> 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?)  
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> 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).
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> Run this in a terminal session:
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> 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.
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> # and <pt>-click-hold> on Dock-Finder-icon, choose relaunch
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>> 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).
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>> Thanks!
>> -Steve
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>> _______________________________
>> Steven Wolf
>> Research Associate
>> CREATE for STEM Institute
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>> Michigan State University
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> David Winsemius, MD
> Alameda, CA, USA
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David Winsemius, MD
Alameda, CA, USA