Mac Text editors

On 27-09-2012, at 02:48, Steven Wolf <wolfste4 at msu.edu> wrote:

Hi everyone,

I've recently moved from using a windows machine to a Mac (some might call it an upgrade, others not?I'll let you be the judge).  Once I started using Notepad ++ on my windows machine, I really began to like it.  Unfortunately, I'm not sure what the free text editor options are for the Mac (Notepad ++ is windows only).  I've dabbled with Linux before and used Emacs/ESS there.  However, I seem to remember fighting pretty hard to make that work and the OSX file structure isn't that intuitive to me yet.  (For example, where is my .emacs file?)  

What text editors are best for the Mac, keeping in mind that I'm probably going to use them via the command line interface (e.g. X11 or Terminal).

You could also take TextMate into consideration.
There is version 1.5: stable and excellent. With very good support for R with an R bundle. 
Works nicely in Mountain Lion as long as you turn off smooth scrolling (via Terminal).
It also has a commandline tool to start the application.

There is now also an alpha version of TextMat 2. I don't use it yet.

Berend