RE: [wdvltalk] text editor for apple OS

2005-07-13 Thread Cheryl D Wise
I'm going to visit that site as soon as I have time to breath. Thanks Cheryl D. Wise MS FrontPage MVP http://mvp.wiserways.com http://starttoweb.com - Online instructor led web design training in FrontPage, Dreamweaver and more! -Original Message- From: William Stewart I use iScroll

Re: [wdvltalk] text editor for apple OS

2005-07-13 Thread William Stewart
I use iScroll 2 to add two button functionality to my laptop. http://www-users.kawo2.rwth-aachen.de/~razzfazz/ Any time you press the trackpad button with two fingers on the trackpad, it right-clicks. Plus, it adds the two finger scrolling functionality that is in the newer Apple laptops. Will

RE: [wdvltalk] text editor for apple OS

2005-07-12 Thread Cheryl D Wise
FYI, macally makes a two button with scrollbar bluetooth mouse. That's what I use with my PowerBook. I agree that an external mouse makes a lot of sense with a laptop but sometimes when I'm only going to be using it to check mail when I'm out of the office (Starbucks perhaps) I don't want carry an

Re: [wdvltalk] text editor for apple OS

2005-07-12 Thread Stephen Caudill
On 7/12/05, Steve Olson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks again for the good advice regarding text editors. I have d/ld > both skEdit and textWrangler. Tried textWrangler last night, and the > JS code I wrote worked, so the editor must be fine, right;-) Yes, definitely. That's a sure sign :

Re: [wdvltalk] text editor for apple OS

2005-07-12 Thread Steve Olson
Cheryl D. Wise wrote: You know silly as I think it is sticking with the one button mouse it is really annoying on a PowerBook. After all on a desktop system all you need to do is change the mouse plugged into the computer (the OS even supports 3 button mice natively) but with a PowerBook it

RE: [wdvltalk] text editor for apple OS

2005-07-12 Thread Cheryl D Wise
LOL You know silly as I think it is sticking with the one button mouse it is really annoying on a PowerBook. After all on a desktop system all you need to do is change the mouse plugged into the computer (the OS even supports 3 button mice natively) but with a PowerBook it means I have to carry a

Re: [wdvltalk] text editor for apple OS

2005-07-12 Thread William Stewart
The delete key is beside the right-click button! Will On 7/11/05 8:28 PM, "Cheryl D Wise" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Don't you love that PowerBook keyboard, who's bright idea was it not to have > a functional delete key on it anyway I want to know. Especially since the > backspace key is labe

Re: [wdvltalk] text editor for apple OS

2005-07-11 Thread Steve Olson
The delete key for mac is FN+delete. Thanks, Will! Steve Olson P.O. Box 213 Sandpoint, ID 83864 208.304.9064 (cell) [EMAIL PROTECTED] • The WDVL Discussion List from WDVL.COM • To Join wdvltalk, Send An Email To: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] or use the web interface http://e-newslette

RE: [wdvltalk] text editor for apple OS

2005-07-11 Thread Cheryl D Wise
Don't you love that PowerBook keyboard, who's bright idea was it not to have a functional delete key on it anyway I want to know. Especially since the backspace key is labeled 'delete'. Cheryl D. Wise MS FrontPage MVP http://mvp.wiserways.com http://starttoweb.com - Online instructor led web des

Re: [wdvltalk] text editor for apple OS

2005-07-11 Thread William Stewart
The delete key for mac is FN+delete. Will On 7/11/05 2:47 PM, "Steve Olson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks, Stephen; > >> Welcome. It's nice over here ;) > > I must admit I am glad that i switched, though I still can't figure > out how the ctrl-c and ctrl-v equivalents, etc. etc. I als

Re: [wdvltalk] text editor for apple OS

2005-07-11 Thread Steve Olson
As far as GUI FTP programs for mac go (which skEdit and TextWrangler both have built in FTP or SFTP, but you'll still want to have a standalone FTP Client), Transmit from Panic software is great, as is everything by Panic. Thanks, Stephen! I didn't expect the text editors to have built-in FTP c

Re: [wdvltalk] text editor for apple OS

2005-07-11 Thread Stephen Caudill
SFTP == (Secure File Transfer Protocol || FTP over SSH); skEdit only supports SFTP, not FTP (though I think it may be in the forthcoming beta). Every OS has a built in FTP program :) Just not necessarily a GUI for the FTP program. As far as GUI FTP programs for mac go (which skEdit and TextWran

Re: [wdvltalk] text editor for apple OS

2005-07-11 Thread Steve Olson
> Replace ctrl key with the apple key and that will usually do it. It works! Apl-c = ctrl-c. Thanks, Cheryl. > Text wrangler is a good program, so I agree with Stephen about it. I'll put that one at the top of my list. Thanks for your help. Steve Olson P.O. Box 213 Sandpoint, ID 83864 20

RE: [wdvltalk] text editor for apple OS

2005-07-11 Thread Cheryl D Wise
Replace ctrl key with the apple key and that will usually do it. I run both platforms for testing sites but prefer Windows. Others prefer Macs and some people even like a flavor of Unix, some thing called a Linux Distros which apparently come in sub flavors like RedHat, Suse, Openwall, Slackware, D

Re: [wdvltalk] text editor for apple OS

2005-07-11 Thread Steve Olson
Thanks, Stephen; > Welcome. It's nice over here ;) I must admit I am glad that i switched, though I still can't figure out how the ctrl-c and ctrl-v equivalents, etc. etc. I also still miss the delete key, since the apple delete seems to equate to the DOS/Windows backspace. My XP emulat

Re: [wdvltalk] text editor for apple OS

2005-07-11 Thread Stephen Caudill
there are several very good ones... which you'll want to go with will probably depend on the languages you'd like syntax highlighting for. I use skEdit (http://www.skti.org/skEdit.php) for PHP and HTML as well as an all around editor when I need to make quick changes to a file, directly on the ser

[wdvltalk] text editor for apple OS

2005-07-11 Thread Steve Olson
Hello all, I am in the midst of changing to a new computer, and hope that list members can give me some advice.I have been using Intel machines for years, and have just switched to an Apple PowerBook G4. It's my first trip into apple land, and I'm still a bit disoriented... On my wi