BBEdit

I'm going to look into an easier way to creating a startup item. While by Unix standards the described procedure may be a small thing, the Mac way has to have a simpler way to do these things or OS X will not sell a half million copies in its lifetime, much less in a year. While continuing to try to find an easy way, I realized that an earlier attempt had a syntax error. To...

yeah you have to reopen the file. I agree it is harder than it has to be, but hopefully BBedit will fix that before final with a carbon version (even though it works fine in classic now).

I am attempting a trial migration of our OS9/WebSTAR/Lasso intranet site to OSX/Apache/Lasso(OSX beta!), and need to be able to edit text files. Lasso requires the files to have a .lasso suffix, rather than HTML, and I need to be able to edit the files. Under OS9, any number of editors (SimpleText, BBEdit, Tex-Edit) could open text files regardless of any suffixes. Now, under...

It wasn't a bad example. It was a great example for me! :) "but using CLI text editors is archaic, I really don't see the advantages of doing that. " Working on your local system, I don't see any either. Wizards at them will tell you they're faster, and they probably are for people who've memorized all the commands. But when you start working on remote servers,...

To Jaded (I'm also busy as hell, maybe you'll get back sometime): So Domino has a bad GUI. I don't know too many people who administer it a lot, so I don't know if it has a generally "bad" perception, but even I, a GUI advocate, thought it was "bad" when I briefly looked it at a training session. Even the instructor (a Lotus partner) said that it was illogically structured....

Just use BBEdit !! ...

It's not much to ask for...... something like BBEdit lite with syntax coloring added in ... that's the type of thing I am talking about here... ...

I can't imagine what bbedit's gonna look like under aqua... I just can't picture it

I'm getting sick here trying to learn C++ using CodeWarrior on the fly.... I'm a RB and VB type of guy! I need a REALBasic EditField Control with the following properties... Multi-Line "WITH OUT WORD WRAP" and has horizontal along with vertical scroll bars... Pretty much I'm trying to create a Document app that a document window works like one from BBEdit... or more simply...

I can't wait until bbedit is ready!! ...