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From: heron stone on 21 Mar 2010 20:07 In article <siegman-B62DFA.09152821032010(a)bmedcfsc-srv02.tufts.ad.tufts.edu>, AES <siegman(a)stanford.edu> wrote: > This is a user report which is totally summed up in the Subject: line. > If it helps anyone reading it, it helps them. > > Expanded version: For a long time I've been using TextEdit as my > primary document reading, composing, and editing tool, and griping about > how it's almost good enough and if Apple would only add a few features > it would be really great. > > People kept responding: switch to Bean. I finally made the switch. It's > definitely worth the small learning curve; I should have done it long > ago. > > [For the record, this is on 10.4.11; I'll make the switch to Leopard/ > Snow Leopard eventually also.] ..yes, i switched to bean quite a while ago ..it's great -- unDO email address ___ Nature, heron stone to be commanded, http://gendo.net must be obeyed. mailto:heronDO(a)gendo.net
From: gtr on 21 Mar 2010 20:41 It sure seems to have some loyal fans and/or high raters at VersionTracker. I'll check it out. -- Thank you and have a nice day.
From: M-M on 21 Mar 2010 20:52 In article <siegman-B62DFA.09152821032010(a)bmedcfsc-srv02.tufts.ad.tufts.edu>, AES <siegman(a)stanford.edu> wrote: > For a long time I've been using TextEdit as my > primary document reading, composing, and editing tool, and griping about > how it's almost good enough and if Apple would only add a few features > it would be really great. What I it that Bean has that Textedit doesn't? -- m-m http://www.mhmyers.com
From: Jolly Roger on 22 Mar 2010 10:53 In article <2010032207321116807-cfnzrpu(a)crevtrrarg>, J. Stewart <cfnzrpu(a)crevtrr.arg> wrote: > On 2010-03-21 20:52:01 -0400, M-M <nospam.m-m(a)ny.more> said: > > >> For a long time I've been using TextEdit as my > >> primary document reading, composing, and editing tool, and griping about > >> how it's almost good enough and if Apple would only add a few features > >> it would be really great. > > > > > > What I it that Bean has that Textedit doesn't? > > Bean does not support Applescript! That's a show stopper here. TextEdit > does support it. > > Personally I use Tex-Edit Plus and/or TextWrangler depending on my > task. Both of them have extensive Applescript and reg-ex support. They > are both worth ponying up a little spare change. What sort of things do you need Applescript support to do in a text editor? -- Send responses to the relevant news group rather than email to me. E-mail sent to this address may be devoured by my very hungry SPAM filter. Due to Google's refusal to prevent spammers from posting messages through their servers, I often ignore posts from Google Groups. Use a real news client if you want me to see your posts. JR
From: M-M on 22 Mar 2010 11:49
In article <jollyroger-49FC62.09532622032010(a)news.individual.net>, Jolly Roger <jollyroger(a)pobox.com> wrote: > What sort of things do you need Applescript support to do in a text > editor? SO much, I don't know where to begin. Tex-Edit comes with a bunch of scripts and a download site to contribute or leech from. Check it out: http://dougscripts.com/texedit/ Example (just grabbed at random): Email Obscurer written by Andrew Sasaki posted: Sep 5, 2003 This script replaces the characters in email addresses with their HTML equivalents, preventing them from being harvested by site-crawling spambots while displaying properly in a browser. -- m-m http://www.mhmyers.com |