Atomized

More OSX madness

Well, I’ve found a few things that solve some of my OS X problems.

• PithHelmet, an ad-blocking plugin for Safari. Shareware, which sucks, but only $10.
• I was going to sing the praises of Interarchy, which (allegedly) is a transparent FTP/SFTP client, capable of presenting remote sites to you as disks. This is similar to KDE’s IOSlave system, which I find extremely useful. Alas, that was not even close to the case. Interarchy mirrors a remote site and lets you edit it, then upload the changes. It’s completely useless, and if I ever lost control of my mental facilities to the point where I thought it was a good idea, I could use rsync instead.

And I’ve finally solved my text editor conundrum, by switching back to Emacs. While this goes against my instincts, and I’d prefer a slick OS X editor, there just isn’t one that works for me. And I’m really not asking for all that much; just syntax highlighting and built-in SCM with CVS and Subversion. BBEdit is stupid expensive, and I don’t care for it that much, jEdit is bloated and slow, Xcode is extremly clumsy, and none of the other editors even meet my two criteria. On the other hand, I found Aquamacs, a native Aqua port of GNU Emacs. It comes out-of-the-box with HTML, XML, CSS, and PHP syntax support, version control for CVS and Subversion, and works well. I also set up PHP function completion and argument lookup. It wasn’t my first choice, but I’m happy with it.

Discussion

The code editor you’ll want to check out is TextMate, at macromates.com.

Good feature set (including syntax highlighting), almost daily updates, and inexpensive.

ZenKalar

2005/11/17

Integrated version control support required, period. TextMate lacks it.

Ian Eure

2005/11/17

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