[R] Mac Text editors

[Steven Wolf]

Thanks everyone for all of your help.  This has really helped me filter all of the noise about text editors on the internet.

-Steve

On Sep 27, 2012, at 5:41 AM, Berend Hasselman <bhh at xs4all.nl> wrote:

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> On 27-09-2012, at 02:48, Steven Wolf <wolfste4 at msu.edu> 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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>> 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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> You could also take TextMate into consideration.
> There is version 1.5: stable and excellent. With very good support for R with an R bundle. 
> Works nicely in Mountain Lion as long as you turn off smooth scrolling (via Terminal).
> It also has a commandline tool to start the application.
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> There is now also an alpha version of TextMat 2. I don't use it yet.
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> Berend
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