On Sat, 15 Jun 2002, Dennis Eberl wrote: > On Saturday, June 15, 2002, at 10:42 AM, Larry Price wrote: > > > I've been using the office imac running OS X, but mostly just as a > > windowing terminal (though itunes rocks). > > There is a Carbonized Emacs available....
It's telling that I think one of the coolest things about the mac is that it correctly interprets the ncurses color table. > > On Fri, 14 Jun 2002, Dennis Eberl wrote: > <snip> > My favorite editor > is BBEdit running under the Mac GUI. Does everything I need an editor to do, > grep's, syntax coloring, et cetera. > Have you ever tried TextPad? (nagware, windows platfom) > Do you have a read on how OS X is being accepted? Very well, but I'm appreciating the overall package, the new OS and the new hardware generation, if they made those new imacs in colors other than space station white I'd be on them in a heart beat. I love it. Answer to my > prayers and all that good stuff, but the bottom line is that the Mac has > always been the machine of choice for artistic types (of which group I > count my self a minor league member) who abhorred Windows and probably have > nightmares over anything connected with the world of Unix. There just doesn' > t seem to be much about the unixness of OS X on the Internet, at least as > far as I can see. Even Apple doesn't seem to play to the interests of > someone like me. I would much rather develop a database driven web site > using, say PHP and MySQL, on a Mac, because I like the Mac environment, > have a fortune invested in Adobe software for the Mac, and really dig being > able to get at the innards by popping up a terminal or two or three. Is > there some beehive of Mac OS X inerest out there I am missing or is my > description pretty accurate as you know it? > > Dennis > Given that most of the Gurus I know are toting titanium laptops with fruity glowing icons, the meme is out there that apple makes a good tool. http://www.efn.org/~laprice ( Community, Cooperation, Consensus http://www.opn.org ( Openness to serendipity, make mistakes http://www.efn.org/~laprice/poems ( but learn from them.(carpe fructus ludi)
