There was a recent thread on Mac text editors. I don't remember seeing smultron (smultron.sourceforge.net) -- which is pure cocoa, is thus very macosx, has rectangular selection, has line numbers, projects, a toolbar, a drawer for snippets, show invisibles, html preview, html help, dotmac synchronization, parantheses matching, regular expression and multi-document search. It can serve as an external editor for FTP and TeX programs and has a command-line version. It's freeware and an active sourceforge project. If you don't like X11 and Swing and are starting to dislike the usual Carbon look more and more, this is a good choice. It has syntax coloring for about 25 languages (not for R/S), but syntax coloring is easy to add as a plist to the application bundle. === Jan de Leeuw; Distinguished Professor and Chair, UCLA Department of Statistics; Editor: Journal of Multivariate Analysis, Journal of Statistical Software US mail: 8125 Math Sciences Bldg, Box 951554, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1554 phone (310)-825-9550; fax (310)-206-5658; email: deleeuw at stat.ucla.edu .mac: jdeleeuw ++++++ aim: deleeuwjan ++++++ skype: j_deleeuw homepages: http://gifi.stat.ucla.edu ++++++ http://www.cuddyvalley.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------- No matter where you go, there you are. --- Buckaroo Banzai http://gifi.stat.ucla.edu/sounds/nomatter.au
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3 messages · Rob Goedman, Jan de Leeuw
Thanks Jan. The syntax coloring you forwarded works fine in Smultron. Does Smultron support rectangular selections? Last year I used Smultron quite a bit to test with external editors in R.app and indeed found it a really nice editor. And it also worked fine with AppleScript (to submit a selection or the entire source file to R). The sourceforge version has added several neat features! At some point I integrated the Smultron source into R.app to see how difficult that would be. A simple test turned out fairly easy, but dropped that idea in favor of the current setup in R.app (everybody can pick his/her own favorite editor and open/quit of R and editor are decoupled). Tried to make Smultron multiple window (like the R.app internal editor and SubEthaEdit, a request which at that time had been turned down by Peter). Would indeed require a lot of work (if at all possible). The only other minor feature I find surprising is the difference between Command-Q and clicking the window close button. After your emails I downloaded the latest version and Smultron definitely is a nice editor and the project feature works well/is useful. Rob
On Jan 4, 2006, at 8:51 AM, Jan de Leeuw wrote:
There was a recent thread on Mac text editors. I don't remember seeing smultron (smultron.sourceforge.net) -- which is pure cocoa, is thus very macosx, has rectangular selection, has line numbers, projects, a toolbar, a drawer for snippets, show invisibles, html preview, html help, dotmac synchronization, parantheses matching, regular expression and multi-document search. It can serve as an external editor for FTP and TeX programs and has a command-line version. It's freeware and an active sourceforge project. If you don't like X11 and Swing and are starting to dislike the usual Carbon look more and more, this is a good choice. It has syntax coloring for about 25 languages (not for R/S), but syntax coloring is easy to add as a plist to the application bundle. === Jan de Leeuw; Distinguished Professor and Chair, UCLA Department of Statistics; Editor: Journal of Multivariate Analysis, Journal of Statistical Software US mail: 8125 Math Sciences Bldg, Box 951554, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1554 phone (310)-825-9550; fax (310)-206-5658; email: deleeuw at stat.ucla.edu .mac: jdeleeuw ++++++ aim: deleeuwjan ++++++ skype: j_deleeuw homepages: http://gifi.stat.ucla.edu ++++++ http://www.cuddyvalley.org ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -- ------------------------- No matter where you go, there you are. --- Buckaroo Banzai http://gifi.stat.ucla.edu/sounds/nomatter.au
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Updated syntax coloring some more. I also colored my strings blue. www.cuddyvalley.org/smultron.zip Rectangular selections work for me (as in BBEdit or Alpha) using option-click-draw. As for the AppleScript, I would be nice to have an R service in R.app so that R code can be evaluated from any Cocoa application.
On Jan 5, 2006, at 08:29 , Rob J Goedman wrote:
Thanks Jan. The syntax coloring you forwarded works fine in Smultron. Does Smultron support rectangular selections?
=== Jan de Leeuw; Distinguished Professor and Chair, UCLA Department of Statistics; Editor: Journal of Multivariate Analysis, Journal of Statistical Software US mail: 8125 Math Sciences Bldg, Box 951554, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1554 phone (310)-825-9550; fax (310)-206-5658; email: deleeuw at stat.ucla.edu .mac: jdeleeuw ++++++ aim: deleeuwjan ++++++ skype: j_deleeuw homepages: http://gifi.stat.ucla.edu ++++++ http://www.cuddyvalley.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------- No matter where you go, there you are. --- Buckaroo Banzai http://gifi.stat.ucla.edu/sounds/nomatter.au