Comments on: I’m actually happy with my ActionScript editor… on OS X! http://www.turdhead.com/2007/09/25/im-actually-happy-with-my-actionscript-editor-on-os-x/ For geeks with social skills! Wed, 05 May 2010 09:31:40 -0400 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: VeryVito http://www.turdhead.com/2007/09/25/im-actually-happy-with-my-actionscript-editor-on-os-x/comment-page-1/#comment-19821 VeryVito Wed, 26 Sep 2007 10:46:05 +0000 http://www.turdhead.com/2007/09/25/im-actually-happy-with-my-actionscript-editor-on-os-x/#comment-19821 Ask and you shall receive! The first of a series on customizing jEdit is now online <a href="/2007/09/26/making-the-perfect-as-editorpart-1-test-movie/" rel="nofollow">here</a>, and there's plenty more coming. Stay tuned, and thanks for the encouragement! (And feel free to let me know what you think of the series as it progresses. Thanks!) Ask and you shall receive! The first of a series on customizing jEdit is now online here, and there’s plenty more coming. Stay tuned, and thanks for the encouragement!

(And feel free to let me know what you think of the series as it progresses. Thanks!)

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]]> By: Ben http://www.turdhead.com/2007/09/25/im-actually-happy-with-my-actionscript-editor-on-os-x/comment-page-1/#comment-19815 Ben Wed, 26 Sep 2007 07:43:11 +0000 http://www.turdhead.com/2007/09/25/im-actually-happy-with-my-actionscript-editor-on-os-x/#comment-19815 Whoa, that would be so nice of you!!! I have had excatly the same experience with Textmate, and on top of that i had some rather funky char encoding problems with it. Other then Textmate i tryed every other editor from BBedit to eclipse, but for the same reasons that you said i just couldnt warm up with them as they couldnt provide a similar experience als sepy on windows (the osx version is sadly useable with out copy and past and numerous other bugs). Much appreciated! Ben Whoa, that would be so nice of you!!!

I have had excatly the same experience with Textmate, and on top of that i had some rather funky char encoding problems with it. Other then Textmate i tryed every other editor from BBedit to eclipse, but for the same reasons that you said i just couldnt warm up with them as they couldnt provide a similar experience als sepy on windows (the osx version is sadly useable with out copy and past and numerous other bugs).

Much appreciated!
Ben

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]]> By: VeryVito http://www.turdhead.com/2007/09/25/im-actually-happy-with-my-actionscript-editor-on-os-x/comment-page-1/#comment-19805 VeryVito Wed, 26 Sep 2007 03:04:00 +0000 http://www.turdhead.com/2007/09/25/im-actually-happy-with-my-actionscript-editor-on-os-x/#comment-19805 Ben, as for plugins, I'm using (in addition to the latest jEdit, 4.3pre10) CtagsSidekick, BufferTabs, Console, Tasklist, Project Viewer, ErrorList, First Mate, Infoviewer and a few others. I think the majority of my "liking it" has come from the hours of tweaking I've put into making it work like I expect it to (adding custom Macros to search the ActionScript API, for instance, and even going so far as to change the default icons within the OS X "look and feel"). Rest assured I'm going to put a permalinked "How to make jEdit perfect" page up as soon as I get it exactly as I want it. It's already better than anything else I've used on the Mac so far, but I'm still tweaking (and making notes of what works). And Jim, as I mentioned above, I've definitely given Textmate a spin. I own Textmate, and until this week it was my "better than nothing" editor. It is indeed a great OS X editor, but it's just not for me at all. It's not like anything else I'd ever use on any other platform, and frankly, I #@$%^@ hate "floating" palettes that won't dock out of the way! (I spend more time moving that #@$^% Code Browser around than I do actually editing code). Every time I try to edit ActionScript with Textmate, I end up distracted and surfing the Web looking for something else. This week, I think I've finally found it. Meanwhile, anybody got any <em>other</em> favorite plugins they'd like to suggest? I'm delving into the Sidekick API to try to add true AS2 and AS3 autocompletion myself, but if anybody else has any ideas, I'm open! Ben, as for plugins, I’m using (in addition to the latest jEdit, 4.3pre10) CtagsSidekick, BufferTabs, Console, Tasklist, Project Viewer, ErrorList, First Mate, Infoviewer and a few others.

I think the majority of my “liking it” has come from the hours of tweaking I’ve put into making it work like I expect it to (adding custom Macros to search the ActionScript API, for instance, and even going so far as to change the default icons within the OS X “look and feel”). Rest assured I’m going to put a permalinked “How to make jEdit perfect” page up as soon as I get it exactly as I want it. It’s already better than anything else I’ve used on the Mac so far, but I’m still tweaking (and making notes of what works).

And Jim, as I mentioned above, I’ve definitely given Textmate a spin. I own Textmate, and until this week it was my “better than nothing” editor. It is indeed a great OS X editor, but it’s just not for me at all. It’s not like anything else I’d ever use on any other platform, and frankly, I #@$%^@ hate “floating” palettes that won’t dock out of the way! (I spend more time moving that #@$^% Code Browser around than I do actually editing code). Every time I try to edit ActionScript with Textmate, I end up distracted and surfing the Web looking for something else. This week, I think I’ve finally found it.

Meanwhile, anybody got any other favorite plugins they’d like to suggest? I’m delving into the Sidekick API to try to add true AS2 and AS3 autocompletion myself, but if anybody else has any ideas, I’m open!

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]]> By: Jim bachalo http://www.turdhead.com/2007/09/25/im-actually-happy-with-my-actionscript-editor-on-os-x/comment-page-1/#comment-19794 Jim bachalo Wed, 26 Sep 2007 00:55:31 +0000 http://www.turdhead.com/2007/09/25/im-actually-happy-with-my-actionscript-editor-on-os-x/#comment-19794 You need to try textmate mate;) You need to try textmate mate;)

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]]> By: Ben http://www.turdhead.com/2007/09/25/im-actually-happy-with-my-actionscript-editor-on-os-x/comment-page-1/#comment-19792 Ben Tue, 25 Sep 2007 23:49:38 +0000 http://www.turdhead.com/2007/09/25/im-actually-happy-with-my-actionscript-editor-on-os-x/#comment-19792 Ah the lack of a good AS editor on OSX - could it really be over?? Just a question, what plugs did you install for AS dev? Thanks a lot for your post! Ah the lack of a good AS editor on OSX – could it really be over??

Just a question, what plugs did you install for AS dev? Thanks a lot for your post!

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