Agreed. There are various fine and usable programs which can run on OS
X, varying from free, thru cheap to pricey (as in BBEdit). At a pinch,
you can even run some older editors on Classic (if you have Classic).
It still doesn't negate my original gripe. OS X ships without a simple
graphical text editor capable of openly understanding the difference
between Mac and UNIX text-files. Sure I can delve into vi, vim, pico,
emacs or <insert VT editor of choice> but TextEdit is staring me in the
face. Sure I can install the full Developer Kit, but I don't actually
need to write Cocoa apps, just to edit some UNIX text files. To rub it
in, Apple provides instructions on how to use TextEdit for code and
config files which turn out to be horse-shit. I carefully follow these
instructions to set up my basic BIND config:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106853
including the howto on using TextEdit for config files:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106212
and it DOESN'T WORK.
This is Not Very Good.
It means that Apple have created a set of support How Tos without
actually bothering to test them out and check for bugs. This is really
Not Very Good. Sometimes misleading help is worse than no help at all.
GWW
On 6 Feb 2006, at 18:49, Bruce Johnson wrote:
On Feb 4, 2006, at 3:04 PM, Peter Udbjørg wrote:
Den 4. feb. 2006 kl. 21.32 skrev Unsupported OS X:
TextWrangler is BBEdit's replacement for BBEdit Lite, which is free,
but requires 10.3 or better.
Suffices for what I need it to do, which is Perl, HTML, PHP and SQL
programming as well as general purpose text editing.
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