> On Jan 20, 2018, at 0:39, Macs R We <[email protected]> wrote: > > Well, thanks anyway, I enjoyed it.
:) I started it when Apple moved to Intel and we had all those "Hey I can run Windows on the machine" kind of translators who asked all sorts of questions totally unrelated to Macs but since they were on Macs they thought we had the answers. So I decided to start a list, and a blog. Then depression came, I stopped writing for a few years, and I resumed last autumn. I thought it was funny that 10 years back I was writing that I had no use at all for AppleScript in my workflow and that now I could not live without AS, even though I had been on a Mac since 94. So now I'm writing because that helps me learn, with the hope that some readers will be able to have some use for the code, or eventually start learning themselves. It's interesting how automation is such an important feature of daily computing but there are still very few solutions for the standard computer user. > I still use the world clock widget. In fact, I have to continually modify > the Apple-distributed time zone files in every release to add a couple > entries, such as Riga (Latvia), which is a capital city but still apparently > doesn't rate a spot on Apple's radar. File a bug report :) > It's also nostalgic to see such an emacs fan in this day and age. I've been > using it since 1978 and I still use it regularly to massage files output by > other means. I could not find a better XML editor/validator, thanks to nxml-mode. It just opens the files, finds the errors, lets you fix them and move on. I could not find a way to do that in BBEdit, which I like a lot too. I learned regexp with it when Lite was still alive. I created the second book store HTML site in France thanks to it (1996, static thing with no cart or anything, just a simple web form to order). So I use both, in fact I also use TextEdit a lot too. When I want to just write, I use my "pseudo" distraction free mode for TextEdit, when I want to code a bit I use emacs and when I want to do regex search/replace I use BBEdit. Jean-Christophe Helary ----------------------------------------------- http://mac4translators.blogspot.com @brandelune _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
