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ForgEdit

ForgEdit

programmer's text editor

Version:  1.0.1

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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

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.   
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4 comments |

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


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.

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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.


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Thursday, October 11 2007 @ 07:39 AM PDT


This is excellent. Please keep it free! - Stefan_E

Yes, will do. Thanks!

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Thursday, October 11 2007 @ 07:51 AM PDT