BBEdit

http://www.barebones.com/products/bbedit_lite.html Just thought yall might like to know... jdog

That would be lovely but I've seen nothing like it. I've only read one acknowledgement of this problem, and it was from the good guys at BBedit -- their 6.1.2 upgrade now has ~5 paragraphs about getting bbedit to open files (you can "map the file name") under Mac OS X. About actually changing file-types (which manifests in icon display, as well as clickability), they point...

In a recent article that was linked to off one of these messages (can't remember where or who), the #1 complaint Apple had on OS X was its slow response time. Guess what #2 was? The dock! It seems people aren't in love with it as much as I was led to believe (much to my relief). The concept is good, but amusingly enough, when I'm in OS X I've already done as much as possible...

change settings under OS 9.04 with BBEdit Lite 4. ...

directories... filtered by filename. I've never used anything but BBEdit since. ...

Used BBedit on OS9 and earlier. For some reason I didnt really like it. Maybe because it was an overpriced text editor. ...

One of the things you can do from the command line is to run things as root. So not only can you launch BBEdit, but then BBEdit will have full access to read/write to the entire file system. To do this use the same comman as above, but do it logged into the Termainal as root... root# open '/Volumes///BBEdit 6.1 for OS X/BBEdit 6.1.2 for OS X'

I use BBEdit from the command line, and think it works great. ...

Of course BBEdit is a GUI program, but thats kind of the point. ...

BBEdit is a GUI not a CLI program ;) (at least I think that is the case in OS X as well) In the CLI I prefer EMACS ;) Admiral