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Introduction
Mac Text Editor
Although you can run Daisy from the command line or through the primitive GUI interface, by far the most convenient environment is a good text editor. One such editor is TextPad. By following the instructions on this page, you will gain:
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- Parenthesis pair matching.
- Highlighting of models, fixed components and parentheses in input files.
- Run Daisy within TextPad.
Instructions
The configuration process can be divided into three tasks, first downloading and installing the files, then adding support for Daisy setup files, and finally for running the daisy command line executable (daisy.exe) from within TextPad.
Download and install
- Fetch TextPad by following the link.
- Install TextPad on you computer, and remember the installation directory.
- Fetch and unpack the TextPad Daisy support files, again follow the link.
- Copy the unpacked files (Dai.syn, Daisy.tcl, Daisy2.tcl, and Daisy3.tcl) to the 'Samples' directory, below the TextPad install directory.
Create a Daisy document class
- Start TextPad.
- Open the 'Configure' menu.
- Select 'New Document Class...'
- Specify Daisy as the class name, and press 'Next'.
- Specify *.dai as the class members, and press 'Next'.
- Check the 'Enable syntax highlighting' check mark box.
- Select 'Dai.syn' from the 'Syntax definition file:' drop down menu.
- Press 'Next' and 'Apply'.
- Exit TextPad to make the changes take effect.
If you open a Daisy setup file with a file name suffix of '.dai' with TextPad, you should now see pretty colors.
Add Daisy to the 'Tools' menu
- Start TextPad.
- Open the 'Configure' menu.
- Select 'Preferences...'
- Click on 'Tools' (the name, not the small box with a beside it).
- Click on 'Add' and choose 'Program...' from the drop down menu.
- Find and select the 'daisy.exe' file. It is normally located in the 'bin' subfolder of the folder where you installed Daisy.
- Press 'Apply'.
- Now open 'Configure' and 'Preferences' again.
- This time, click the box next to 'Tools' to view the available tools.
- Select 'Daisy'.
- Copy the exact string ([^:]+):(d+):(d+) to text field named 'Regular expression to match output', replacing the old content. Use cut and paste to get it right.
- Choose '3' from the 'Column' drop down menu.
- Press Apply.
- Exit TextPad to make the changes take effect.
If you open a Daisy setup file, you should now be able to run the simulation by opening the 'Tools' menu, the 'External tools' submenu, and then selecting 'Daisy'. The output from the simulation will be placed in another window. If an error message contain a file name and line number, you will (sometimes) be able to go directly to the specified location by double clicking on the error message.
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Syntax-Highlighting Editor. Texpad's editor is LaTeX and BibTeX aware and highlights your code to make it easy to write it. Bundled with Texpad are a number of themes that allow you to change the look of the editor. In addition to syntax highlighting, you can block comment/un-comment, block indent/un-indent and spell-check as you type.
If you read my post about my search for a good email client for Mac, you know that I’m also looking for a good usenet client, as well as a text editor. This post is about the latter.
Sorry for the misleading title – there is no such thing as TextPad for Mac. I wish there was though, as I’m very much used to the program on Windows, and really miss it while typing this on a MacBook.
Back when I started writing HTML, I was happy with Windows’ own native text editor, Notepad. My friend John advised me to use TextPad, as it was so much better, he said. I refused, saying I didn’t need anything better than Notepad.
Then one day he just installed it on my pc without asking (!) and I decided to try it, even if only to stop John from nagging me about it. Soon enough I realised it really was better than Notepad (duh!), and I got hooked. Not a big problem, right? Sure. Until you buy a MacBook and discover there is no TextPad for Mac! Thanks a lot John! 😉
Looking for an alternative, I asked a Mac using friend for advice, and she said ‘TextWrangler‘. That’s the prog I’m typing this in, and initially it looked like it could do the same things as TextPad — I’d just have to remember new keyboard shortcuts. Now that I’m actually using it though, it looks like it doesn’t. Most of it is likely because I haven’t figured out how to use half the stuff that’s listed in the menu yet, but there’s one thing I’m pretty sure can’t be set, which annoys me already.
When I’m coding web pages, I like to minimize the amount of typing. So, if I’m writing a list of navigation links, I start like this:
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I then copy and paste that last line as many times as I need, say 8 times:
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Then I place the cursor inside the <a> element, and type the first linktext:
While my cursor is behind the word ‘Home’, I want to go to the right spot to start typing the second link text. And that, is where TextPad does it right, and all the others do it wrong. How so?
Well, in TextWrangler, BBEdit, TextMate, TextEdit, jEdit, skEdit, Smultron, SubEthaEdit, Tag, and probably any other editor — but I couldn’t be bothered to continue testing — I need to navigate to the right place by moving the cursor one position down and several to the left. In TextPad, one press on the down arrow key brings me where I want to be: in the same spot as where I started typing in the previous line, regardless of how many characters I typed. Call me spoiled, but I want a text editor that behaves exactly like that.
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I’m not the only one who swears by TextPad by the way, already back in 2004 Andy Clarke was worried how he could be living without TextPad, even though for different reasons. Several people advised him to use BBEdit, and perhaps it does what Andy wanted it for (haven’t tested all its features), but it doesn’t do the job for me.
I went as far as installing CrossOver Mac, a commercial version of Wine, to run TextPad even on my MacBook, but it’s not optimal, and I find myself using TextWrangler for anything that needs a quick edit or for blog posts like this, while firing up my XP box for serious work.
So, anyone know of a text editor for Mac that does what I described above plus of course preferably also the other TextPad features I use on a daily basis such as search & replace, macros, extension defined tag and text colouring, infinite undo, compare files, search in multiple unopened files, regular expressions, different character encodings and split views?
Please?
Update June 2008: the above described behaviour in TextPad is only apparent if you’ve set “constrain cursor to text” in the preferences, as Jason Penney discovered.
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An Explorer-type sidebar makes it easy to find and open plain text files, for instance (ANSI or OEM code sets; DOS, Unix, Mac, Netscape or mixed end-of-line sequences). A tabbed interface means you can work on several files at the same time. And you can arrange your tabs into multiple horizontal or vertical groups, too, great when you want to compare two or more files with each other.
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There's plenty more, too, with tools to transpose characters or words; append select lines; adjust text case, and sort, indent and realign text. A bookmark system helps you track important elements of your document. If you do still get lost, powerful search and replace tools (with regular expression support) will soon restore order, while on-demand spell checking makes sure your work is ready for sharing.
If you need more power then the program can be extended in various ways. A clip library makes it easy to add commonly used snippets of text; a macro recorder helps you to automate many TextPad operations; and an External Tools menu can be customised with your preferred programs.
And all this is configurable in some very sophisticated ways. To take just one example, you can restrict what individual Windows users can do with TextPad, perhaps preventing them editing existing files, disallowing use of the program's file management features, and a whole lot more.
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