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Interview with SubEthaEdit Developer

Posted by pudge on from the collaboration-is-for-mortals dept.

WaxPoetic writes "There is a fun interview with the developers of SubEthaEdit, the only collaborative editor for Mac OS X. Topics covered include Apple slowing developing, BEEP, why they kept a free version, being a German Mac user, hopes for the Tiger release, and their hatred of metal interfaces."

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  1. Re:Pfft by thulsey · · Score: 0, Redundant
    I have tried subEthaEdit. It is nice. I have NEVER been able to get Rendevouz to work on ANYTHING in my home network (iTunes, etc.) but as a text editor, it was ok.

    But in defense of the parent's post about vim, try gvim (same flavor, different can). Most of the "cryptic" yet commonly desired commands are in the menu.

    As for syntax hiliting.... :syntax=php (or html, or pl, or txt, or c++, or......)

    colorschemes are nice, as well.

    Very graceful, if you ask me... and powerful when you get into vimdiff and folds. Yowsa.

    And control v puts you in block mode, so you can select columns of text, and if you just want blocks of code, type $... (don't need to do that in gvim, anyway... you can use a little thing called a mouse...)

    You can indent, too. But I didn't mean to type a tutorial. :-)

    Anyway, beside the point. I still use BBEdit on my Macs, unless I'm doing remote work on a server somewhere. I can't stand the delay using the built-in FTP method.