I've played with this for 5 minutes, and already think this is exceptionally well-designed. If I had seen this before I purchased Textmate, I probably would not have bought it.
OS X really needs a good FREE Cocoa-based editor. Smultron so far is the only one I am aware of that currently qualifies. I don't know why, but I just don't like how it works. This, however, I took an instant liking to. The tabs, the project drawer, the easy customizations, all made working with it completely intuitive. I didn't have to read any directions.
A few things that would improve it (I apologize if these are present and I haven't yet found them):
1. Ability to turn off text anti-aliasing.
2. Ability to fine-tune the color scheme in the syntax highlighting. I like a dark blue or black background, and some things are hard to see in the default color scheme.
3. A command-line tool to invoke the binary.
4. Programability, so I can code stuff like extra commands to open an iTerm session in the directory corresponding to the file displayed in the frontmost tab, etc.
Overall, I am extremely impressed.
Please keep up the good work, and please keep it free.
ForgEdit
programmer's text editor
Version: 1.0.1
This is excellent. Please keep it free!
Feedback Type: Review
Contributed by: wgscott Sunday, August 26 2007 @ 09:06 PM PDT
Product Platform: MacOSX
Used Product For: Less than a month
Recommend Product: YES
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This is excellent. Please keep it free! - wgscott
THANKS. Sorry I didn't read very carefully. I also saw the plan to charge, so I apologize for the "please keep it free" stuff. I actually didn't get the prompt to install the command-line tool.Thursday, October 11 2007 @ 07:34 AM PDT
This is excellent. Please keep it free! - wgscott
OK, now I see it is called the "syncronozation tool." I never guessed it was the command-line utility to activate the editor.You might want to make the pop-up more explicit.
Thursday, October 11 2007 @ 07:39 AM PDT
This is excellent. Please keep it free! - Stefan_E
Yes, will do. Thanks!Thursday, October 11 2007 @ 07:51 AM PDT
This is excellent. Please keep it free! - Stefan_E
Thanks for the kind review!About your requests - apart from turning off anti-aliasing, those features are already in there. For syntax colors, go to Preferences->Modes. When you start up ForgEdit the first time, it ask permission to install a command line tool 'ForgEd' (which is a soft link to the tool inside ForgEdit.app). Programmability - ForgEdit is AppleScriptable.
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Monday, September 17 2007 @ 11:34 AM PDT