Wednesday, October 11, 2006
Text Editor Tips
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Dear Reader,
You can take away my desk, my chair, even my coffee cup--but don't touch
my text editor. Regardless of whether you're a developer, web producer, or
writer, text editors are the lifeblood of our work.
We recently published "Text Tricks and More Text Tricks" on Mac DevCenter.
We thought it would be fun to gather together a whole bunch of tricks from
various text editors for the first time--not only to spread the word, but
to invite our readers to add their own tips and time-savers. We've also
asked a handful of Mac users to contribute their favorite text tricks.
http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2006/10/10/text-tricks.html
Already, at the end of the article, there are additional reader-submitted
tips. So you might want to jump over there for a read... and to add to the
developing knowledge base of text trickery.
Until next time,
-Derrick
Derrick Story
O'Reilly Network Editorial Director
derrick@oreilly.com
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Text Tricks and More Text Tricks
We've covered text editors here before. We know, from various posts at the
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plain text as we are. Tips on using your editor of choice are easy to
find, but we thought it would be fun to gather a whole bunch of them
together for the first time; not only to spread the word, but to invite
our readers to add their own tips and time-savers. We've also asked a
handful of Mac users to contribute their own favorite text tricks.
http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2006/10/10/text-tricks.html
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