If you have been reading previous entries, you will
remember my quest for various applications. The most important
is possibly a text editor. I've tried a few for a very
short time now, and they all have good points and bad
points.
I had short periods with
SubEthaEdit,
TextWrangler,
BBEdit and
Xcode's editor.
I need C, C++, Java, XML and HTML syntax
highlighting and the ability to drop files of these types onto
the application or the Dock icon. I would like to also have a
tabbed interface and a column select mode.
Of the four editors I had a quick look at,
all highlight C, C++ and Java syntax. The only editor that did
not highlight XML and HTML syntax was
TextWrangler.
Only the Bare Bones Software editors (BBEdit and
TextWrangler) allowed column selecting.
Xcode's built-in editor has a tab-like interface, where the
open files are in a drop-down list instead of actual tabs.
SubEthaEdit, BBEdit and Textwrangler do not offer tabbed
interfaces.
Networking still is not working correctly. The Powerbook
can talk to the Thinkpad, and vice-versa, but sometimes when I
use the Powerbook to copy files to the Thinkpad I can't open
the files using the Thinkpad. they are corrupted somehow, or
not finished even though MacOSX thinks they're finished.
Occasionally the Finder will also lock up when copying files
to Windows. I do not have this problem when copying files from
the Thinkpad to the Powerbook, this works
everytime.
Update: Since the latest TextWrangler now supports
HTML and XML highlighting and is also free, it has taken the top editor spot.
