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 <b...@xs4all.nl> wrote: > > On 27-09-2012, at 02:48, Steven Wolf <wolfs...@msu.edu> wrote: > >> Hi everyone, >> >> 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?) >> >> 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). > > 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. > > There is now also an alpha version of TextMat 2. I don't use it yet. > > Berend > ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
