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[iMeowbot]

A few nice emacs ports in no particular order:

http://aquamacs.org/
http://www.porkrind.org/emacs/
http://homepage.mac.com/zenitani/emacs-e.html

There was a nice Xemacs port too, but there has been some kind of dispute over licensing so I'm not sure how actively it's maintained:

http://members.shaw.ca/akochoi-xemacs/Carbon XEmacs/Home.html

 

[socks]

thanks.
dumb question. where can I find a emacs port for OS X?

Open the Terminal application and type emacs ?

I personally prefer VIM (Vi improved), to try vi, type

vi file1.txt

in the terminal. Works well with Visor.

 

[Runard]

Thanks for the suggestions.
But I need a real GUI around all that unix power
Have a hard time with Vi and emacs.
Any other apps that have the power of unix in a GUI?

 

[DXoverDY]

Thanks for the suggestions.
But I need a real GUI around all that unix power
Have a hard time with Vi and emacs.
Any other apps that have the power of unix in a GUI?

Holy crap.. no one has mentioned TextMate yet?

http://www.macromates.com

go there now. Best editor on the planet.

 

[Runard]

Am switching between that one, textwrangler and bbedit now.
Looking for the features I need. The prize is alittle steep, but the bundles are awsome.
Also, I can't find the "Filter trough command" reference in the manual, so that is a problem I have with TextMate

 

[DXoverDY]

Am switching between that one, textwrangler and bbedit now.
Looking for the features I need. The prize is alittle steep, but the bundles are awsome.
Also, I can't find the "Filter trough command" reference in the manual, so that is a problem I have with TextMate

Just create a command in the bundle editor. If you read up on that you can do virtually anything with a command that uses any command line application. It's much more powerful than your typical "Filter Through Command" function.

 

[Runard]

thanks.
I'll try that

 

[Runard]

I have chosen Textmate as my editor.
Mainly because it has:
"Filter trough command"
This option accepts unix commands like grep and sed and thus have great power in editing documents.

 

[demallien]

Obviously the one true editor is vi.

aamen to that<esc>:wq

 

[aLoC]

I have chosen Textmate as my editor.
Mainly because it has:
"Filter trough command"
This option accepts unix commands like grep and sed and thus have great power in editing documents.

I just tried TextMate for the first time, editing a shell script in my home dir.

Every time I try to save it asks for Admin password. I own the file, it is in my home dir, and other programs (Emacs) can save it fine. Seems a little buggy to me.

 

[notjustjay]

SlickEdit (X Windows version) is the standard editor at my workplace. Great integration with C++.