Good to know that. Thanks a lot, Yan Zhou! Gang
On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 9:13 AM, Yan Zhou <[email protected]> wrote: > Holding the option key while selecting text, you can select the columns. > This is built into the Mac OS X and available in many Mac "native" text > editor like textmate, textwrangler, bbedit, etc, even the system's TextEdit > can do that. > > Meanwhile Vim can do column selection with the blockwise-visual (CTRL-V is > the default shortcuts). I don't use Emacs but heard it can do it, too. So > select, copy paste and replace columns is nothing special at all. > > > On Jan 29, 2011, at 2:04 PM, Gang Chen wrote: > > > I use nedit on daily basis because I usually run R on the Mac terminal or > > X11, not in the R GUI window. One feature I like nedit most is that I can > > select, copy, paste, and replace columns. Anybody know whether such a > > feature is available in other editors such as TextWrangler? > > > > Thanks a lot for sharing the syntax highlighting file, Christian! I'll > try > > it out soon. Do you know if there is any way to execute a highlighted > > portion of the R code in nedit? > > > > Cheers, > > Gang > > > > On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 8:04 AM, cstrato <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> Dear All, > >> > >> Although this question was asked and answered many times, one editor was > >> never mentioned: > >> > >> As a long-time Mac user I prefer "nedit" for the following reasons: > >> > >> - it was developed by people who wanted to have a Mac-like editor on > Linux > >> > >> - it is almost as powerful as emacs but much easier to use and much > faster > >> > >> - it has built-in syntax highlighting for many languages > >> > >> - it has also syntax highlighting for R, simply install "R-5.3.pats" > >> (which I attach) > >> > >> - it is incredible fast, e.g.: > >> > >> -- it can open text files of sizes larger than 500 MB in few seconds > >> (e.g. the Affymetrix annotation file > >> HuEx-1_0-st-v2.na31.hg19.probeset.csv) > >> > >> -- searching such large files is also incredible fast > >> > >> -- it opens a C++ source code with 10,000 lines immediately (in > >> contrast to emacs) > >> > >> For these reasons I use nedit daily since more than 10 years on both > >> Linux and Mac. > >> > >> Best regards > >> Christian > >> _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._ > >> C.h.r.i.s.t.i.a.n S.t.r.a.t.o.w.a > >> V.i.e.n.n.a A.u.s.t.r.i.a > >> e.m.a.i.l: cstrato at aon.at > >> _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._ > >> > >> > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > > > _______________________________________________ > > R-SIG-Mac mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Mac mailing list [email protected] https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac
