[R-SIG-Mac] please recommend an editor (Hai Lin)

[John Chambers]

Simon Urbanek wrote:

>On Dec 7, 2005, at 6:58 AM, Bill Rising wrote:
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>>On Dec 6, 2005, at 6:42, Ken Beath wrote:
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>>>I use TextWrangler http://www.barebones.com as a general editor. It's
>>>free and fairly powerful. I haven't set up any integration with R,
>>>but this should be possible if someone wants to do some work, as
>>>there are possibilities for source colouring, applescripting and
>>>plugin extensions. I just save the files and then Source File in R.
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>>I'm a big fan of emacs. On the mac Aquaemacs allows avoiding some  
>>of the odd keystrokes that emacs normally requires.
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>FWIW you can avoid that in any emacs - that's what .emacs is for ;).  
>I prefer the 'real' emacs compiled as Carbon app which is really  
>stable and behaves as it should - the other clones sometimes don't so  
>I'd avoid them. 
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"Which emacs?" is the source of huge flames (firestorms ?) on the 
macosx-emacs lists, of course.  Aquaemacs is good at providing a natural 
Mac feel & compatibility; if you mainly do  a variety of tasks on Mac OS 
X I find it helps your interactions go smoothly.  And recent versions 
have been better at stability.  The maintainers are very responsive, 
almost as good as the Mac R team ;-).

OTOH if you do emacs on different platforms a lot, then you may find 
Aquaemacs disconcerting.  (I'm more in the former camp these days, but 
sympathize with both.)

John

>I guess I'll make an 'editors for R' page on the OS X  
>wiki when I get back and we can put stuff like this there ...
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>Cheers,
>Simon
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