In reply to Bill Becker who asked:
>I you could only have two editors on your Mac, one for wysiwyg
>formal formatting and potentially publishing, and a plain old text
>editor for simple ASCII files, which two would they be?
Well, just to give the obvious, boring answer:
wysiwyg: I'm afraid I use Microsoft Word. The reasons are that it is
an easy, no thought choice which is mostly compatable with other
people. I tried Nissus, and for some reason didn't like it. Word
Perfect is what my wife uses, but it is not being maintained and is
fairly incompatable with everyone else. I am far from passionate
about this, I just need to grind out the occasional plain vanilla
document.
plain old: (NOT!) BBEdit. *THIS* I am passionate about. I live in
BBEdit. I don't claim to have tried, much less evaluated, the other
choices, all I know is that BBEdit makes me happy. I am currently in
the middle of a large project in a shop that uses Windows NT and
Unix, and I bitterly miss my BBEdit. EMACS is cool and all (and I
have used it for many years) but somehow it seems always to be a
little more stress than I'd like. And its Perl color coding totally
sucks compared to BBEdit. BBEdit is far from perfect (regex support
is weak, integration with MacPerl has the odd rough edge, no color
coding for Python) but is much better than anything else I have tried.
-David Steffen-
David Steffen, Ph.D.
President, Biomedical Computing, Inc. <http://www.biomedcomp.com/>
Phone: (713) 610-9770 FAX: (713) 610-9769 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
