I've been happily using TextMate since 2009, but it's time to start thinking
about moving on.

I mostly write Python and rST, plus the occasional Dockerfile or YAML
configuration file.

What's your favourite text editor, and what do you use it for?

Daniele

On 2022-04-10, D.M Procida <daniele-at-vurt-dot-org@invalid.com> wrote:
> I've been happily using TextMate since 2009, but it's time to start thinking
> about moving on.
>
> I mostly write Python and rST, plus the occasional Dockerfile or YAML
> configuration file.
>
> What's your favourite text editor, and what do you use it for?

BBedit these days, used just for general text file editing and in conjunction with slrn.
Like TextMate it can be opened from the command line.

--
Cheers, Alan

On 2022-04-10, Alan B <alanrichardbarker@nospamgmail.com.here> wrote:
> On 2022-04-10, D.M Procida <daniele-at-vurt-dot-org@invalid.com> wrote:
>> I've been happily using TextMate since 2009, but it's time to start thinking
>> about moving on.
>>
>> I mostly write Python and rST, plus the occasional Dockerfile or YAML
>> configuration file.
>>
>> What's your favourite text editor, and what do you use it for?
>
> BBedit these days, used just for general text file editing and in conjunction with slrn.
> Like TextMate it can be opened from the command line.

Of course most apps can be opened in the cli using open -a but some such as BBEdit and
TextMate can install their own set of cli tools.

--
Cheers, Alan

In article <jbg84sFlm9lU1@mid.individual.net>, D.M. Procida
<daniele-at-vurt-dot-org@invalid.com> wrote:

> What's your favourite text editor, and what do you use it for?

bbedit, everything. nothing else comes close, even the free version.

D.M. Procida <daniele-at-vurt-dot-org@invalid.com> wrote:

> I've been happily using TextMate since 2009, but it's time to start thinking
> about moving on.
>
> I mostly write Python and rST, plus the occasional Dockerfile or YAML
> configuration file.
>
> What's your favourite text editor, and what do you use it for?

Claris Works 4 for all the usual 'office' stuff, service manuals with
embedded diagrams, radio scripts and long articles for magazines.
Pagemaker 6.5 for short articles and general magazine layout (the text
often has to be edited on the page to fit the layout). BBEdit for
programming and for opening mis-named files with'unknown' formats.

--
~ Liz Tuddenham ~
(Remove the ".invalid"s and add ".co.uk" to reply)
www.poppyrecords.co.uk

On 10/04/2022 16:29, Liz Tuddenham wrote:
> D.M. Procida <daniele-at-vurt-dot-org@invalid.com> wrote:
>
>> I've been happily using TextMate since 2009, but it's time to start thinking
>> about moving on.
>>
>> I mostly write Python and rST, plus the occasional Dockerfile or YAML
>> configuration file.
>>
>> What's your favourite text editor, and what do you use it for?
>
> Claris Works 4 for all the usual 'office' stuff, service manuals with
> embedded diagrams, radio scripts and long articles for magazines.
> Pagemaker 6.5 for short articles and general magazine layout (the text
> often has to be edited on the page to fit the layout). BBEdit for
> programming and for opening mis-named files with'unknown' formats.

Hello Liz

TOTALLY off-topic .....

Can you read this PDF file taken from my iMac?

https://www.dropbox.com/s/aiugynt4qt0g5uu/3.%20EtreCheck%20Power%20Users%20-%20will%20YOU%20test%20ple%E2%80%A6%20-%20Apple%20Community.pdf?dl=0

Please advise. Thanks

--
David

In article <wMC4K.800628$xr1.551701@fx02.ams1>, David Brooks
<BDB@invalid.invalid> wrote:

>
> TOTALLY off-topic .....

then don't hijack an existing thread.

On 2022-04-10, nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> wrote:
> In article <wMC4K.800628$xr1.551701@fx02.ams1>, David Brooks
><BDB@invalid.invalid> wrote:
>
>>
>> TOTALLY off-topic .....
>
> then don't hijack an existing thread.

If he wanted to genuinely contact just Liz, he could have sent an email. Liz's email
address it readily available.

--
Cheers, Alan

On 10/04/2022 16:39, Alan B wrote:
> On 2022-04-10, nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> wrote:
>> In article <wMC4K.800628$xr1.551701@fx02.ams1>, David Brooks
>> <BDB@invalid.invalid> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> TOTALLY off-topic .....
>>
>> then don't hijack an existing thread.
>
> If he wanted to genuinely contact just Liz, he could have sent an email. Liz's email
> address it readily available.

I have had correspondence with Liz in the past.

I wanted to catch the eye of nospam 'cause he knows the answers to
everything! ;-)

In article <KUC4K.131792$Mih.28267@fx05.ams1>, David Brooks
<BDB@invalid.invalid> wrote:

> >> In article <wMC4K.800628$xr1.551701@fx02.ams1>, David Brooks
> >> <BDB@invalid.invalid> wrote:
> >>> TOTALLY off-topic .....
> >>
> >> then don't hijack an existing thread.
> >
> > If he wanted to genuinely contact just Liz, he could have sent an email.
> > Liz's email
> > address it readily available.
>
> I have had correspondence with Liz in the past.

then continue to do so for such matters.
>
> I wanted to catch the eye of nospam

bullshit

> 'cause he knows the answers to
> everything! ;-)

that is correct. i do indeed.

On 2022-04-10, nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> wrote:
> In article <jbg84sFlm9lU1@mid.individual.net>, D.M. Procida
><daniele-at-vurt-dot-org@invalid.com> wrote:
>
>> What's your favourite text editor, and what do you use it for?
>
> bbedit, everything. nothing else comes close, even the free version.

I've heard good reports of AquaMacs and I did use it briefly some time ago until
I rebuilt this MBA.

<https://aquamacs.org>

--
Cheers, Alan

On 10/04/2022 16:46, nospam wrote:
> In article <KUC4K.131792$Mih.28267@fx05.ams1>, David Brooks
> <BDB@invalid.invalid> wrote:
>
>>>> In article <wMC4K.800628$xr1.551701@fx02.ams1>, David Brooks
>>>> <BDB@invalid.invalid> wrote:
>>>>> TOTALLY off-topic .....
>>>>
>>>> then don't hijack an existing thread.
>>>
>>> If he wanted to genuinely contact just Liz, he could have sent an email.
>>> Liz's email
>>> address it readily available.
>>
>> I have had correspondence with Liz in the past.
>
> then continue to do so for such matters.

If it's private I will.

>> I wanted to catch the eye of nospam
>
> bullshit

False

>> 'cause he knows the answers to
>> everything! ;-)
>
> that is correct. i do indeed.

Can you read this PDF file taken from my iMac?

https://www.dropbox.com/s/aiugynt4qt0g5uu/3.%20EtreCheck%20Power%20Users%20-%20will%20YOU%20test%20ple%E2%80%A6%20-%20Apple%20Community.pdf?dl=0

Please advise. Thanks

David Brooks <BDB@invalid.invalid> wrote:
>
> Please advise. Thanks
>

My advice is for you to continue drinking, continue to post your stupid
links to your stupid files in the hope that someone will open it so you can
track them, and continue to generally be the useless doofus that you are.

Oh look, he follows advice.

In article <jbg84sFlm9lU1@mid.individual.net>,
D.M. Procida <daniele-at-vurt-dot-org@invalid.com> wrote:

>What's your favourite text editor, and what do you use it for?

Emacs, for all my text editing (such as this message).

-- Richard

D.M. Procida <daniele-at-vurt-dot-org@invalid.com> wrote:
> I've been happily using TextMate since 2009, but it's time to start thinking
> about moving on.
>
> I mostly write Python and rST, plus the occasional Dockerfile or YAML
> configuration file.
>
> What's your favourite text editor, and what do you use it for?

For code VS Code. For everything else BBEdit free version.

On 10/04/2022 17:46, Bob Campbell wrote:
> David Brooks <BDB@invalid.invalid> wrote:
>>
>> Please advise. Thanks
>>
>
> My advice is for you to continue drinking, continue to post your stupid
> links to your stupid files in the hope that someone will open it so you can
> track them, and continue to generally be the useless doofus that you are.
>
> Oh look, he follows advice.

I *STOPPED* drinking alcohol on 21 March 2018 :-D

On 10/04/2022 15:33, D.M. Procida wrote:

> What's your favourite text editor, and what do you use it for?

BBEdit... it's been around since 1992, so it's native, optimised, and
can handle pretty much anything you can chuck at it.

There used to be a free version called TextWrangler, but now BBEdit
itself is free with all the same features, and you can pay a one-off fee
to unlock the rest if you wish.

<https://www.barebones.com/products/bbedit/comparison.html>

On 10/04/2022 16:29, Liz Tuddenham wrote:
> D.M. Procida <daniele-at-vurt-dot-org@invalid.com> wrote:
>
>> I've been happily using TextMate since 2009, but it's time to start thinking
>> about moving on.
>>
>> I mostly write Python and rST, plus the occasional Dockerfile or YAML
>> configuration file.
>>
>> What's your favourite text editor, and what do you use it for?
>
> Claris Works 4 for all the usual 'office' stuff, service manuals with
> embedded diagrams, radio scripts and long articles for magazines.
> Pagemaker 6.5 for short articles and general magazine layout (the text
> often has to be edited on the page to fit the layout). BBEdit for
> programming and for opening mis-named files with'unknown' formats.

Can you tell me more about WebKit?

A picture saves 1000 words, so:- https://ibb.co/KLDp17J

On 10. Apr 2022 at 16:33:00 CEST, "D.M. Procida"
<daniele-at-vurt-dot-org@invalid.com> wrote:

> What's your favourite text editor, and what do you use it for?

BBEdit.

Have been using it for ages for writing websites, sifting through huge
textfiles (it can handle way over 100MB with ease), comparing files, taking
notes, etc.

On 11/04/2022 07:54, Bernd Froehlich wrote:
> On 10. Apr 2022 at 16:33:00 CEST, "D.M. Procida"
> <daniele-at-vurt-dot-org@invalid.com> wrote:
>
>> What's your favourite text editor, and what do you use it for?
>
> BBEdit.
>
> Have been using it for ages for writing websites, sifting through huge
> textfiles (it can handle way over 100MB with ease), comparing files, taking
> notes, etc.

+1

The developers are long term Mac-ies, the support's great too. It also
opens zip files and tarballs without having to expand them first, which
is extremely useful for me.

--
Chris

On 11/04/2022 12:15, Chris Ridd wrote:
> On 11/04/2022 07:54, Bernd Froehlich wrote:
>> On 10. Apr 2022 at 16:33:00 CEST, "D.M. Procida"
>> <daniele-at-vurt-dot-org@invalid.com> wrote:
>>
>>> What's your favourite text editor, and what do you use it for?
>>
>> BBEdit.
>>
>> Have been using it for ages for writing websites, sifting through huge
>> textfiles (it can handle way over 100MB with ease), comparing files,
>> taking
>> notes, etc.
>
> +1
>
> The developers are long term Mac-ies, the support's great too. It also
> opens zip files and tarballs without having to expand them first, which
> is extremely useful for me.

And if you need syntax support for some unusual sort of file, there's a
couple of supported ways to write plugins.

--
Chris

Alan B <alanrichardbarker@nospamgmail.com.here> writes:

> On 2022-04-10, nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> wrote:
>> In article <jbg84sFlm9lU1@mid.individual.net>, D.M. Procida
>><daniele-at-vurt-dot-org@invalid.com> wrote:
>>
>>> What's your favourite text editor, and what do you use it for?
>>
>> bbedit, everything. nothing else comes close, even the free version.
>
> I've heard good reports of AquaMacs and I did use it briefly some time
> ago until
> I rebuilt this MBA.
>
> <https://aquamacs.org>

I would agree it is an emacs that has been tuned to act more like a normal macOs app and with useful additions added out of the box so you don't need to do much configuring, but it is emacs so you can add more if you want to

I used to use this up to last year but unfortunately its current development has slipped a bit so it its using an older version of emacs as its base so it does not run natively on Apple Silicon and some of the eeacs add ons I want to use need a newer emacs than aquamacs provides. The current maintainer last week said "The large merge is in progress! Bits all over the floor right now, as it were...." when that is done others could help.

So I am using plain emacs now.

--
Mark

On 2022-04-16, Mark Bestley <gnus@bestley.co.uk> wrote:
> I used to use this up to last year but unfortunately its current
> development has slipped a bit so it its using an older version of
> emacs as its base so it does not run natively on Apple Silicon
> and some of the emacs add ons I want to use need a newer emacs
> than aquamacs provides. The current maintainer last week said
> "The large merge is in progress! Bits all over the floor right
> now, as it were...." when that is done others could help.
>
> So I am using plain emacs now.

I still use emacs (and vi) in Linux. But, as I said, BBEdit is now
my preferred text editor in macOS. Thinking about Classic Mac,
SimpleText usually met my needs!

--
Cheers, Alan

On 16/04/2022 13:27, Alan B wrote:
> On 2022-04-16, Mark Bestley <gnus@bestley.co.uk> wrote:
>> I used to use this up to last year but unfortunately its current
>> development has slipped a bit so it its using an older version of
>> emacs as its base so it does not run natively on Apple Silicon
>> and some of the emacs add ons I want to use need a newer emacs
>> than aquamacs provides. The current maintainer last week said
>> "The large merge is in progress! Bits all over the floor right
>> now, as it were...." when that is done others could help.
>>
>> So I am using plain emacs now.
>
> I still use emacs (and vi) in Linux. But, as I said, BBEdit is now
> my preferred text editor in macOS. Thinking about Classic Mac,
> SimpleText usually met my needs!

I used to use emacs/xemacs back on Solaris, but it was always a bit
strange (copy/paste in and out of emacs for example) and because the
whole OS never really had a consistent UI, it worked OK.

I tried Aquamacs on OS X a while ago and *really* didn't get on with it
as it stood out as being a bit too odd. Something like bbedit works much
better for me.

--
Chris