[R-SIG-Mac] R editor for Mac

[Yan Zhou]

Holding the option key while selecting text, you can select the columns. This is built into the Mac OS X and available in many Mac "native" text editor like textmate, textwrangler, bbedit, etc, even the system's TextEdit can do that.

Meanwhile Vim can do column selection with the blockwise-visual (CTRL-V is the default shortcuts). I don't use Emacs but heard it can do it, too. So select, copy paste and replace columns is nothing special at all.


On Jan 29, 2011, at 2:04 PM, Gang Chen wrote:

> I use nedit on daily basis because I usually run R on the Mac terminal or
> X11, not in the R GUI window. One feature I like nedit most is that I can
> select, copy, paste, and replace columns. Anybody know whether such a
> feature is available in other editors such as TextWrangler?
> 
> Thanks a lot for sharing the syntax highlighting file, Christian! I'll try
> it out soon. Do you know if there is any way to execute a highlighted
> portion of the R code in nedit?
> 
> Cheers,
> Gang
> 
> On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 8:04 AM, cstrato <cstrato at aon.at> wrote:
> 
>> Dear All,
>> 
>> Although this question was asked and answered many times, one editor was
>> never mentioned:
>> 
>> As a long-time Mac user I prefer "nedit" for the following reasons:
>> 
>> - it was developed by people who wanted to have a Mac-like editor on Linux
>> 
>> - it is almost as powerful as emacs but much easier to use and much faster
>> 
>> - it has built-in syntax highlighting for many languages
>> 
>> - it has also syntax highlighting for R, simply install "R-5.3.pats"
>> (which I attach)
>> 
>> - it is incredible fast, e.g.:
>> 
>>  -- it can open text files of sizes larger than 500 MB in few seconds
>>     (e.g. the Affymetrix annotation file
>> HuEx-1_0-st-v2.na31.hg19.probeset.csv)
>> 
>>  -- searching such large files is also incredible fast
>> 
>>  -- it opens a C++ source code with 10,000 lines immediately (in
>> contrast to emacs)
>> 
>> For these reasons I use nedit daily since more than 10 years on both
>> Linux and Mac.
>> 
>> Best regards
>> Christian
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