[R-SIG-Mac] R-SIG-Mac Digest, Vol 95, Issue 19

Riccardo G-Mail ric.romoli at gmail.com
Sat Jan 29 15:58:13 CET 2011


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>     1. Re:  R editor for Mac (cstrato)
>     2. Re:  R editor for Mac (Gang Chen)
>     3. Re:  R editor for Mac (Yan Zhou)
>     4. Re:  R editor for Mac (Gang Chen)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2011 14:04:55 +0100
> From: cstrato<cstrato at aon.at>
> To: r-sig-mac at r-project.org
> Subject: Re: [R-SIG-Mac] R editor for Mac
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> 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
> _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._
> C.h.r.i.s.t.i.a.n   S.t.r.a.t.o.w.a
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> Message: 2
> Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2011 09:04:01 -0500
> From: Gang Chen<gangchen at mail.nih.gov>
> To: cstrato<cstrato at aon.at>
> Cc: "r-sig-mac at r-project.org"<r-sig-mac at r-project.org>
> Subject: Re: [R-SIG-Mac] R editor for Mac
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> 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
>> _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._
>> C.h.r.i.s.t.i.a.n   S.t.r.a.t.o.w.a
>> V.i.e.n.n.a           A.u.s.t.r.i.a
>> e.m.a.i.l:        cstrato at aon.at
>> _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._
>>
>>
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> Message: 3
> Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2011 14:13:52 +0000
> From: Yan Zhou<zhouyan at me.com>
> To: Gang Chen<gangchen at mail.nih.gov>
> Cc: r-sig-mac at r-project.org
> Subject: Re: [R-SIG-Mac] R editor for Mac
> Message-ID:<706A2B61-FE72-41EA-95DB-3000586AC28B at me.com>
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> 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
>>> _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._
>>> C.h.r.i.s.t.i.a.n   S.t.r.a.t.o.w.a
>>> V.i.e.n.n.a           A.u.s.t.r.i.a
>>> e.m.a.i.l:        cstrato at aon.at
>>> _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._
>>>
>>>
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> Message: 4
> Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2011 09:31:09 -0500
> From: Gang Chen<gangchen at mail.nih.gov>
> To: Yan Zhou<zhouyan at me.com>
> Cc: "r-sig-mac at r-project.org"<r-sig-mac at r-project.org>
> Subject: Re: [R-SIG-Mac] R editor for Mac
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> Good to know that. Thanks a lot, Yan Zhou!
>
> Gang
>
> On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 9:13 AM, Yan Zhou<zhouyan at me.com>  wrote:
>
>> 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
>>>> _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._
>>>> C.h.r.i.s.t.i.a.n   S.t.r.a.t.o.w.a
>>>> V.i.e.n.n.a           A.u.s.t.r.i.a
>>>> e.m.a.i.l:        cstrato at aon.at
>>>> _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._
>>>>
>>>>
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I think the best editor is EMACS, it is amazing!!

Regards
Riccardo



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