Post #49,432
8/14/02 11:52:04 PM
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all I want is an fscking txt editor!!!!!!
since osx is not wrking with roadrunner I want to be able to create txt files without any appleworks bs. Any ideas? txt edit for mac? Trying to creat a basic web page using a ver basic editor.
thanx,
bill
."Once, in the wilds of Afghanistan, I had to subsist on food and water for several weeks." W.C. Fields
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Post #49,433
8/14/02 11:57:58 PM
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BBedit Lite? Mozilla Composer?
Both free and both work on X.
Tom Sinclair
"Everybody is someone else's weirdo."
- E. Dijkstra
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Post #49,436
8/15/02 12:06:26 AM
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Look at Unix alternatives.
OSX can run Unix apps, right? Doesn't it have VI or PICO built in?
[link|http://www.indiana.edu/~uitspubs/b103/z103.html|PICO info]
Open up a Unix Shell under OSX, and type in PICO, see if it comes up. Sort of like EDIT.COM for Unix systems.
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Post #49,442
8/15/02 4:22:11 AM
8/21/07 5:45:27 AM
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You mean like emacs, vi, TextEdit?
These are all onboard from day one. OK, TextEdit defaults to RTF but just select Format->PlainText and you're there. Emacs and vi are available from terminal, TextEdit is in your apps folder. If you like, you can install the dev tools and use ProjectBuilder but its kind of a LSE and might be annoying for certain kinds of files.
I generally use vi for small things, TextEdit for more involved editing/html page stuff, and PB for source code.
My officemate is an all emacs all the time kind of guy.
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Post #49,452
8/15/02 10:37:47 AM
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Vim here
For "just editing" tasks, you can't beat vi or derivatives like vim. I never got into Emacs, and I think it's overkill for editing anyway - and there's GOT to be something wrong with an editor that has Lisp built into it. :-)
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Post #49,461
8/15/02 11:55:50 AM
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Yup, all the classics are built in
vi, pico, ed, emacs
You can also install vim if you want.
It's just that I usually have BBedit open as a matter of course and it has built-in macros for tagging.
It's got some other nifty features for the more UNIX-y OS X user as well.
Tom Sinclair
"Everybody is someone else's weirdo."
- E. Dijkstra
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Post #49,467
8/15/02 12:17:14 PM
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note to all I am not running OSX due to Cable Modem problems
need a text editor that runs on MACOS 9.X
thanx,
bill
."Once, in the wilds of Afghanistan, I had to subsist on food and water for several weeks." W.C. Fields
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Post #49,471
8/15/02 1:01:02 PM
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How about this.
Haven't tried it myself.
[link|http://downloads-zdnet.com.com/3000-2205-10105130.html?tag=lst-0-5|Haxial TextEdit v 1.0]. Free simple editor for MacOS 8.x, 9.x and OS X. 218 kB.
If not, check around there as there are other free editors.
HTH.
Cheers,
Scott.
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Post #49,528
8/15/02 8:30:39 PM
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just what I was looking for, thanks all
."Once, in the wilds of Afghanistan, I had to subsist on food and water for several weeks." W.C. Fields
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Post #49,493
8/15/02 3:11:36 PM
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My bad
BBedit Lite is still a decent choice: free and runs on both X and !X
Tom Sinclair
"Everybody is someone else's weirdo."
- E. Dijkstra
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Post #49,513
8/15/02 4:40:44 PM
8/21/07 5:50:46 AM
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Sorry
BBEditLite is free and works on OS9. You've already got SimpleText on board - its lame but its there. Those are your best bets.
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Please leave a message and I'll get back to you when democracy returns.
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