Universal Binary? - Dr. Faustroll

I suspect what you are referring to is a wordprocessor, not a programming editor - if I'm wrong about this, I'll second the recommendation for TextWrangler (much faster and better designed than jEdit).

Your friend might start by seeing whether TextEdit (included for free with OS X) does everything they need it to do - it only includes basic features, but frequently that is all that is needed by many people.

Should they need a more powerful feature set, they might want to look at AbiWord - free, and quite powerful.

If your friend is willing to spend a (reasonable) amount of money in exchange for products that are well-designed and well-supported, I would recommend they take a look at Mellel and Pages (part of Apple's iWork suite). These two products are very different from each other - some people will love one and hate the other - but both are excellent tools in their own right. Both have free trial versions (Pages should have been included with your friend's Mini), so try-before-you-buy is painless.

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Tuesday, March 21 2006 @ 03:26 PM PST

Universal Binary? - sdfisher

You're joking, right? If OOo isn't Mac-like enough, why the heck would JEdit be worth using? JEdit is sluggish and horribly ugly.

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Saturday, May 06 2006 @ 04:57 PM PDT