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geekhack Community => Other Geeky Stuff => Topic started by: o2dazone on Sat, 19 September 2009, 19:23:56
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My relatively new job has me developing on an Macbook Pro. It's got some pretty amazing features that I find myself wanting on my windows-based machine. I've HIGHLY considered just doing my machine as a Hackintosh, but I'm not 110% comfortable with making that leap (yet). In the mean time, I've been slowly emulating a lot of features from OSX. I'll post a few here, and would love to hear your guys' suggestions as well
Dock Emulator
RocketDock (http://rocketdock.com/) (free)
Stardock's ObjectDock (http://www.stardock.com/products/objectdock/) (free with $19.95 for features+)
Terminal
Cygwin (http://www.cygwin.com/) (free)
Exposé
OpenExpose (http://sourceforge.net/projects/openexpose/) (free)
WinExpose (http://cybernetnews.com/winexpose-no-longer-being-developed/) (free no longer developed, but really nice)
Intellimouse 'Instant Viewer' (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=ea22bd62-4873-406a-bbbe-c587d35a53bf) (MS free alternative, no animations, feels clunky)
Spotlight / Quicksilver
Launchy (http://www.launchy.net/) (free)
Textmate ( I know it's not a native OSX app, but it should be :x )
E-TextEditor (http://www.e-texteditor.com/) ($34.95)
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ubuntu + compiz for the easy way
arch + compositing + a million little things is what i am doing now
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i had another post but it was dumb so i deleted it, but wait, $35 for a text editor?
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i had another post but it was dumb so i deleted it, but wait, $35 for a text editor?
It's cheaper than the Mac version that it's a clone of.
It's not just a text editor. It's a very cool text editor if you're a Web developer.
I say this even though it comes in 3 out of 3 of my commonly used editors that I use for Web development. I paid the $55 or so for it just so I could use it for quick edits to HTML and programming code. The way it colors and highlights code is extremely helpful. In this case, pretty colors do indeed matter and because it's just a text editor, it loads fast and requires no setup.
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i mean dont get me wrong, im very enthusiastic about my text editors too
just found a new one in linux world, "SciTE", it is great. like gedit but without gnome.
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(http://www.cs.drexel.edu/~kfu22/me/images/vim_logo.png)
from my cold dead hands
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yeah i know i am trying to get myself to start learning
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scite does way more than gedit even thinks about knowing how to do lol. For windows most people I know use pspad or context
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Vim is ok, but I like using this new feature they developed back in the 80s called a "Graphical user interface". Just kidding ;) I know a lot of people who can go into a file, edit something and save out much faster than I can with Vim.
$35 for a text editor isn't horrible, especially as a company expense (I use Aptana on my Windows machine, which is based off the Eclipse platform. A little cumbersome, but I simply added e-texteditor because it was the windows alternative to TextMate)
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Also more suggestions plz&thx
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$35 for a text editor isn't horrible, especially as a company expense (I use Aptana on my Windows machine, which is based off the Eclipse platform. A little cumbersome, but I simply added e-texteditor because it was the windows alternative to TextMate)
The only problem with having to load up Eclipse to run a text editor is that it's like renting a bulldozer to rake a pile of leaves. My main editor is an Eclipse based editor, Zend for Eclipse. It has a lot of power, but man is it slow.
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Vim is ok, but I like using this new feature they developed back in the 80s called a "Graphical user interface". Just kidding ;)
well, if that's your only objection...
(http://i37.tinypic.com/qy7ig9.png)
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The only problem with having to load up Eclipse to run a text editor is that it's like renting a bulldozer to rake a pile of leaves. My main editor is an Eclipse based editor, Zend for Eclipse. It has a lot of power, but man is it slow.
Yeah, hence my cumbersome comment. I like it because it's got a lot of community support. But I agree, using a shotgun to kill a mosquito. e-TextEditor is doing an ok job...but it just feels a tad unpolished and disjointed. Maybe I need to get the Monaco typeface, and things will start feeling better :P
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other nice monospace fonts are droid sans mono, dejavu sans mono, and inconsolata
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Geany is a great editor/IDE for Linux. And I'm not really sure what the $35 text editor that Notepad++ with extensions couldn't do. Then again, I'm not a web dev, so I could be completely wrong.
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Spotlight / Quicksilver
Launchy (http://www.launchy.net/) (free)
Launchy rocks. I have tried some other application launchers but most of them rely too much on the mouse for my taste. This one on uses keyboard input and auto-completion, meaning you can get what you want in a fraction of the time.
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other nice monospace fonts are droid sans mono, dejavu sans mono, and inconsolata
I think the font Anonymous is also nice for text editing.
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I saw this post, and tried out the above mentioned fonts. The anonymous font IS nice : )
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My relatively new job has me developing on an Macbook Pro. It's got some pretty amazing features that I find myself wanting on my windows-based machine. I've HIGHLY considered just doing my machine as a Hackintosh, but I'm not 110% comfortable with making that leap (yet). In the mean time, I've been slowly emulating a lot of features from OSX. I'll post a few here, and would love to hear your guys' suggestions as well
Dock Emulator
RocketDock (http://rocketdock.com/) (free)
Stardock's ObjectDock (http://www.stardock.com/products/objectdock/) (free with $19.95 for features+)
Terminal
Cygwin (http://www.cygwin.com/) (free)
Exposé
OpenExpose (http://sourceforge.net/projects/openexpose/) (free)
WinExpose (http://cybernetnews.com/winexpose-no-longer-being-developed/) (free no longer developed, but really nice)
Intellimouse 'Instant Viewer' (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=ea22bd62-4873-406a-bbbe-c587d35a53bf) (MS free alternative, no animations, feels clunky)
Spotlight / Quicksilver
Launchy (http://www.launchy.net/) (free)
Textmate ( I know it's not a native OSX app, but it should be :x )
E-TextEditor (http://www.e-texteditor.com/) ($34.95)
I've only used Windows 7 for an hour only, but I think Snow Leopard and Windows is pretty close to one another now. They are not the exact copy cat of each other, but Windows 7 peek feature is pretty good. In fact, Exposé was the one think I missed the most whenever I was on a Windows computer prior to Windows 7.
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A little over a month and I still use Launchy, but I develop mostly on the OSX. I'm a couple weekends away from just doing a double boot Win/Hackintosh build, because honestly, I prefer developing on a Mac way more (TextMate, a term, and it's better multitasking functionality), but I need somewhere to game, test widely used browsers, design in Photoshop (I can work with hotkeys a lot faster in a Windows environment, than on a Mac. Hello, where's my alt + letter menus)
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A little over a month and I still use Launchy, but I develop mostly on the OSX. I'm a couple weekends away from just doing a double boot Win/Hackintosh build, because honestly, I prefer developing on a Mac way more (TextMate, a term, and it's better multitasking functionality), but I need somewhere to game, test widely used browsers, design in Photoshop (I can work with hotkeys a lot faster in a Windows environment, than on a Mac. Hello, where's my alt + letter menus)
ALT + Menu letter is what I miss the most in OS X. It took me a while to get out of the habit, but I still think OS X would have been much better with this feature. That said, OS X allows you to change almost every shortcut keys used on the system. I've assigend Cmd+Alt+Ctrl+P to save to PDF. So if I want to asve a file in PDF format, I will press on Cmd+P to bring the print dialog box and then Cmd+Alt+Ctrl+P to save to PDF. I've also set Save As... to Cmd+Shift+S.
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(TextMate, a term, and it's better multitasking functionality)
I absolutely LOVE TextMate.
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yeah, TextMate is amazing. I found InType (http://intype.info/home/index.php) to be another TextMate windows alternative. The fact that it's free is nice, but lacks a bit of functionality to TextMate, and doesn't reuse the themes like eTextEditor does