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Mike Webb

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Nov 21, 2009, 8:09:45 PM11/21/09
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iv been using TextMate (http://macromates.com/) for my java and C+ work
for university, i just got to the end of my 30day trial and was
wondering what other programs people use for writing there code.

previously i used TextWrangler which was alright but had no way near
the functionality im concidering just paying for it but wanted to know
if there was any similar free version out there!!

Cheers!!

Tom Harrington

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Nov 22, 2009, 2:08:32 PM11/22/09
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In article <2009112201094516807-webbm@gmxcom>,
Mike Webb <we...@gmx.com> wrote:

I just use Xcode's built-in editor. Works great for my needs.

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Tom "Tom" Harrington
Independent Mac OS X developer since 2002
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Mac Dude

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Nov 22, 2009, 2:22:41 PM11/22/09
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In article <2009112201094516807-webbm@gmxcom>, Mike Webb <we...@gmx.com> wrote:

Emacs? I personally like Carbon Emacs,
http://homepage.mac.com/zenitani/emacs-e.html, but there is also Aquamacs,
supposedly more Mac like.

Has a bit of a learning curve but all the functionality you could ever ask for.

M.D.

tayl...@gmail.com

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Nov 23, 2009, 11:21:24 AM11/23/09
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I coughed up $$ for TextMate and am not sorry I did, however, another
general purpose, configurable and expandable text editor is jEdit
<http://www.jedit.org/>. I used it on OS X before TextMate came out,
and still have it installed on my Linux system. It is written in Java
and and can also run anywhere that has Java and a GUI. jEdit also has
lots of plugins, and by adding plugins and adjusting it's settings and
configuration, you can achieve a small-scale IDE that can support
coding, compiling and testing. Not as sophisticated as Eclipse, but
as a student, you probably will find that Eclipse takes too much time
to learn. That also runs on OS X, though I don't know how well
Eclipse supports Objective-C.

It's website indicates that it has syntax highlighting for Objective-C
as well as about a hundred other languages. You can configure the key
commands to do lots of stuff, I added syntax expansion for C and Java
congrol-flow structures like if, while, for.

I haven't tried to get it to integrate into Xcode, so I can't say how
well or badly that might work. Note, if don't mind training yourself
to always load and save your source code files, you can use any editor
with Xcode that will run on OS X.

Finally, it meets your most important criteria, it is free, and the
plugins listed on it's home website are also free.

HTH,

Wes

Mike Webb

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Nov 25, 2009, 9:22:27 PM11/25/09
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Thanks its been really helpfull to see this i have since then got a
free version of TextMate, an older version than my mate gave me. i cant
update it, but its got everything i could hope for in an editor!!

Mike

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