> A lot of things that are ctrl-key in Windows are cmd-key in MacOS X. Cut, > copy, and paste for example. I don't find it hard to use ctrl-x vs cmd-x > when I sit down at a wintendo or wintendow wannabe (Gnome, KDE, etc), > though I am always trying to alt-w to close a window.
One of the things I find frustrating about a Mac is that the keyboard shortcuts aren't consistent from application to application. They seem to assume you'll always be using a mouse, or at least that you don't need to be able to do everything from the keyboard. Another difficulty I had in switching at first, which is mildly embarrassing to admit, is that I could not figure out how to install software I'd downloaded. I had to have a coworker who was a former Mac programmer show me that I needed to drag and drop the app to the Applications folder, although at least it had the side effect of providing him with a considerable amount of amusement. > There's always vim. ;) And if you want a good free IDE, you could use > emacs. But I guess if you're going to use emacs, you're back to looking > for a good editor. =D > > Several people swear by jedit, which is cross-platform. I don't use it > because, as you can probably tell from the above wiseassery (is that a > word?), I prefer console-based editors which can be used over ssh. I tried really, really hard to like jEdit and just couldn't. I've been alpha testing Komodo, which of course is still an IDE and not a text editor but a fairly lightweight IDE (at least compared to Eclipse :). It's also oriented towards scripting languages which is most of what I do at home. I also installed KDE through Fink so I'd have Kate. KDE doesn't quite entirely work on Tiger but it's fairly close. > The open source world is full of programmer's editors. Most of them > run on OSX, and all of them are free and Free. If you want specific > recommendations, let us know what features you want (or what > commercial editors you've liked). We've got plenty of opinions! (-: Ruby support and Subversion integration, mostly. And how comfortable it is to use, which of course is fuzzy and not at all helpful in communicating what I want. :) At work we use Textpad, which I like okay. On my Linux box I use Kate. I am open to recommendations for OS X ( including vi(?m)/emacs :). Melissa _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list euglug@euglug.org http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
