R editor for Mac

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 <cstrato at aon.at> 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
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