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Some other things to check:

• /Library/LaunchAgents and /Library/LaunchDaemons. You can use TextWrangler to view the plist files in those folders.

• Inspect the parent process 281 sudo, and its parent process.

• Use sudo fs_usage from the Terminal to show all disk read/write activity. Look for unconstrainable in the right-hand column. Hit "Ctrl-C" to stop it. sudo opensnoop and sudo iosnoop can also be useful.

• Use lsof -i from the Terminal to show open network connections. Look for unconstrainable in the left-hand column, as well as an unusual server names in the right-hand column.

• It would be interesting to see the output of launchctl list and kextstat

• Notepad ++ - <strong>TextWrangler</strong>
• Treesize Free - <strong>Disc Inventory X</strong>
• Allway Sync - <strong>Sync Gateway</strong>

TextWrangler is free and great and will strip away the formatting. It's by the developers of BBEdit and is my favorite text editor on OS X.

It's also in the Mac App Store.

>Notepad.exe, running under VMWare, seems to work well.

What? Are you joking? You're going to load up VMWare for Notepad?

Use TextWrangler instead.

You have to adjust the preferences of TextEdit if you're going to use it for HTML.

See how you've got that ruler at the top and all those tools to do bold, etc? That means you're editing a Rich Text document.

Change the preferences under New Document, Format, to Plain Text. Then open a new document. You should see no ruler or formatting buttons. Then start over.

But what everyone else said about it not being the best tool. TextWrangler is good and free.

I use BBEdit to open/edit things from SFTP, and it works as you want. I don't use regular FTP, but the menu option is "Open from FTP/SFTP Server", and I would assume it works the same way. They have a completely free version called TextWrangler that you can use, as well as a demo version of BBEdit. BBEdit obviously has more advanced features, but I believe TextWrangler has the FTP functionality you are looking for.

Direct links:

http://www.barebones.com/products/bbedit/

http://www.barebones.com/products/textwrangler/

The Github app just facilitates transfers to/from the website, browsing commit history, etc. Personally, I don't bother with it anymore.

You work with files using whatever editor/IDE you prefer. (For text files, I recommend TextWrangler.)

IMO, you should go back to Github.com and fork the repository in which you're interested. Clone your fork as a local repository. That way you can play around with using push to update your forked repository on Github with the changes you make locally.

You need TextWrangler. Syntax highlighting, code folding, file explorer, and, my favorite feature, awesome find/replace/line finder/regex support. It's great and free.

Here is a comparison of the programming features of dozens of text editors. When I was choosing an editor, I tested several free ones (and a few trial version of paid ones) and chose the text editor that I preferred. I work with OS X and Linux, but do the actual coding of my major projects on OS X. I ended up choosing TextWrangler. I really enjoy working with it for a variety of uses.

Just go get Textwrangler from the Mac App Store or BB. there are a number of other free HTML/CSS editors which will do markup and autocomplete and all that other stuff. There are some paid apps which will do a lot more like upload and sync files to a website or build some elements automatically, but if you just want an editor to work with HTML use something like Textwrangler.

PSA: Don't listen to idiots on reddit who make PSAs

ALWAYS edit your config.plist manually!!!!

Just don't be a potato and use the built-in TextEdit.app - Use TextWrangler

You have the editor vim already installed, it has syntax highlighting, but is not that easy to work with for a beginner. I use it myself, but it might not be the best choice for you.

Another option is to use textedit, but that one lacks any support for syntax highlighting at all. Be sure to set the text type to plain text (format->plain text) and to change the extension to .lua instead of .txt.

I also heard a lot of positive feedback about TextWrangler. It has syntax highlighting for Lua, but I never used it myself.

A more complete list can be found here.

You're 100% positive it's an empty document? I ask only because I had some very old but very important files that would open in Word but didn't appear to have content. After I panicked, I messed around a little bit and wound up changing the font, for reasons I can't now reconstruct, and between that and viewing it as html, I managed to get all the body text as well as the footnotes to show up. think it was Word's best attempt at salvaging largely-incompatible files. It's the longest of long shots, but before you abandon the file it might be worth checking, just for kicks.

You might also try opening them in a plain text editor, with and without a change in the extension. Also highly unlikely to do anything, but it's worth a shot. You might try Apple's own TextEdit and something like TextWrangler, which is free and heavy-duty and handles more or less anything I throw at it. From the TextWrangler page itself: "You have a corrupted word processing file that the program can no longer read. Use TextWrangler to read the file, get rid of the “garbage” characters and recover your text, all in just a few minutes. This trick works with many file formats."

Edit: to open a doc in a different program, right-click on it and choose "Open With"; if the program you want isn't there, go down to "Other…", and from that drop-down pane, browse for the program. You may need to change the selection at the bottom of that pane from "Enable: Recommended Applications" to "Enable: All Applications".

As I say, it's a long shot, but I know what it feels like to face losing years of work. Best of luck!

Edit 2 and I swear I'm done: if you want to get creative with the files, it might be worth making a copy and playing around with that one rather than the base file, so there's no chance of irreversible error.

I was also a long time PC user before swapping to Mac and for me the biggest difference was in mentality. For me everything on the PC was "make the computer do as you want", which includes choosing the software the suited your needs the best and configuring it a lot. No two programs worked the same and often partially solved the same problem. When on Mac I found that life really becomes much easier when you go with the flow more, sort of "use the computer as it was intended to be used", since I have found it so that a lot of the problems already have a "standard" solution, either shipped with the Mac or as a free option. For me one typical example of this is the built in "Keychain Access" that saves all passwords for you. Or something as common as the spell checking which is part of the OS.

That being said, one tool that I find is good for development is Homebrew and then you would typically need a text editor of some sort and there I would recommend TextWrangler.

If you need a lightweight text editor, give Bean a try.

I also like Textwrangler.

Google Docs is always an excellent option if you need simple text composing, or need to be able to make spreadsheets on the fly.

I highly recommend putting down the money and getting the iWork Apps. Since they're now in the App Store, they're cheaper and can be purchased individually.

You could try TextWrangler, it's probably the best known of the free GUI text editors for macOS.

http://www.barebones.com/products/TextWrangler/

Sublime Text 2 or 3 is probably another good choice if you don't mind paying for the product. I've used Sublime Text 2 for years and am very happy with it.

https://www.sublimetext.com/

To my knowledge, the only computer labs on campus with BBEdit are in GCCIS.

I'm not sure which features in BBEdit your professor wants you to use, but perhaps TextWrangler will work as "BBEdit is TextWrangler’s elder sibling."

http://www.barebones.com/products/textwrangler/

Not all SQL files are alike. It will be designed for a particular database - that might be MySQL, PostreSQL, SQLite, or something else. Your teacher should be able to tell you.

If you're comfortable on the command line you can install any of these directly on your Mac, no need for a VM.

Check out Homebrew, which lets you easily install these and lots of other unix software on your Mac.

Alternatively, you can view the contents of the SQL file just by dropping it into TextEdit, but in the long run, you'll probably want to install a better text editor. Try TextWrangler - it's free!

TextWrangler has a nice visual diff for multiple files/folders. http://i.imgur.com/0frqMYW.png

Lets you step through each diff and merge either way, or edit inline since it’s a full-featured text editor and not just a diff tool.

Probably my most used program (aside from adobe) is text wrangler. Removing duplicate lines, sorting lines alphabetically, selecting text by columns, grep based search & replace, add/remove a prefix or suffix to all lines... so many useful things when you've given badly formatted text. (Plus if you code at all, it's handy there!)

TextWrangler is my fav diff tool (and it's FREE). Has a nice enough interface and can compare whole directories, letting you step through code differences and select to merge either way.

OK, another crazy idea:

A .mobileconfig is just an xml file with a fancy extension. Have you tried opening the file in a text editor (I like Text Wrangler) or .plist editor and removing the SSID portion?

Baconite is right about the "smart quotes", but no way in hell should you use Eclipse at this stage. Or sublime, or vim.

(What is wrong with you, DoctorBaconite?!?)

On a Mac you should be using TextWrangler. Period. And thou shalt type everything out.

There is not even a debate on this. Beginner programmers must use a text editor that helps them write text (and only text) well. It must be easy to use (aka not vim) and it must do NOTHING for them. No autocomplete, no squiggly underlines.

A beginner using Eclipse is like an amateur bodybuilder working on his bench press but using a robot "just to help him lift the bar a little".

I'm using BBEdit right now, I'm more used to it than Notepad++ but I imagine they'd both be roughly equivalent.

Textwrangler is the free version (made by the same people), I'm not sure what the difference between them is besides retina support, but I paid $50 for BBEdit because I use the software so much and wanted to support them, and I have a retina screen. Most people I know just stick with Textwrangler though.

I'm loving Cyberduck's synergy with BBEdit. I'm editing files on a remote computer in my own text editor, and whenever I hit "ctrl+s", cyberduck pushes the changes over. Then I'm running the files on the remote computer by SSH on my Terminal.

So, I guess the Mac is probably what you should go for if you're going to be coding.

I'm fairly sure you could set something similar up on a windows computer... but mac is currently really popular for computer programming, which means that there are a lot of people making software and tools for people who program using macs.

I'd hate to do something "just because everyone else is doing it", but sometimes the advantages to sticking with the herd are too compelling.

Other advantages to having the same computer as everyone else: borrowing chargers, getting people to help you with a bug on your system, getting people to to give you tips on what software to use, etc.

Personally, I think a pro is overkill (if you have seriously heavy programs to run, you can run them on the school computers remotely. If you want to play games, the Air or Surface can handle a lot of games, Dota 2, Starcraft 2, Transistor, Hearthstone) and the weight & price aren't really worth it, but I don't know how big you are. If you're big bloke, the extra weight of the pro might not be a concern for you, and I don't know what your budget is.

If I'm understanding this correctly, you just need to modify the update script contained in the bin file right? I think this can be done in Windows or any OS with a compression utility. Have you tried that? I'm currently downloading the bin file you linked from amazon but it's gonna take a while (peak hours internet crap) so if you haven't tried editing it yourself, try this out:

1. Rename the bin file to update.zip.
2. Extract the contents to one folder.
3. Edit the update script using either of the following.
   • If you're in Windows, I suggest using Notepad++ to edit the update script in case you want to preserve the line ending formats.
   • Just the same, if you are on Mac OS X, I suggest editing the update script using TextWrangler.
4. Then compress the extracted files to a zip file again.
   • Make sure that META-INF is on the topmost of the zip file.
5. Push it back to your kindle.

See if that works. I don't have a Kindle but I think the method is pretty trivial.

TextWrangler if you work with simple code in text files all day. Differentiates things by color, but still maintains the plain notepad-like style. Couldn't live without it.

IDLE should have syntax highlighting. If you are not seeing syntax highlighting it is probably because you are working in an unsaved file. Unless the file is saved with a .py extension IDLE will not know it is a Python file and highlight accordingly. This is because other file extensions imply different languages in the file and they may have different highlighting rules.

(Edit: Just downloaded and tried the Windows version of IDLE. Apparently it is a bad editor. If you just do a save it removes syntax highlighting. Do save as and manually add .py at the end of the filename and it should work. ~~I suggest using Notepad++ instead.~~ Mac, right. Try Text Wrangler instead.)

Since you have Python pre-installed, you should also have IDLE, which is a Python shell program. That way you don't have to go into Terminal if you don't want to. Beyond that, TextWrangler is a good Mac text editor.

Don't use text edit!

Use TextWrangler! It's free. It's small. It's incredibly capable. You can get it on the Mac App Store or on their own website.

It's made by the same people that do BBEdit, which can do even more stuff, but is much less free.

Since the editors posted so far cost $50+, here's one that's free: TextWrangler.

It's the second most popular app in the Mac App Store's "Developer Tools" (after Xcode) for a reason. But if you don't want to go through the MAS, it's also available here: http://www.barebones.com/products/textwrangler/

I'm no sysadmin, but I get a lot of mileage out of Textwrangler.

"A Unix and server administrator’s tool, with the ability to open and save files in a variety of line-ending formats, open and save text files located on remote FTP and SFTP servers, authenticated saves (modify files not owned by your account, provided you are an administrative user), and the ability to integrate TextWrangler with Unix tools and scripts, by means of the “edit” command-line tool."

Photoshop and Firebug, and a decent text editor like Programmers Notepad (win) or TextWrangler (mac) should do the trick.

With so many browsers nowadays, the preview features of IDE's like Dreamweaver arent nearly as useful. Use Firefox/Firebug for your primary testing, then check your site in other browsers and make adjustments where necessary.

Im a professional web designer and these are the tools I use.

I'd recommend textwrangler, it'll make your life a little easier. It's synonymous with notepad++ for Windows. The main highlight here is syntax highlighting. While you could use XCode, Apple's IDE, Textwrangler provides most of the benefits without the added complexities. Simply start a new file, save it as a .c file and you'll have C style highlighting.

Then, you can open terminal (at the above mentioned location), navigate to the folder you saved the file in (using cd and ls), and simply call gcc -o [target file name] [output file name]

Then, to run your program, call ./[output file name].

You don't mention whether you're an accomplished programmer picking up a new language, or whether learning Python is wrapped up inside the bigger issue of learning how to write code.

Assuming you're new to programming, I'd avoid Eclipse and other programmer's environments, because they present you with too many things that you'll have to consciously ignore (because you're not ready to understand what they do), which just increases the complexity of serving your fundamental learning objective. I would also avoid vim at this point (even though it is my personal editor of choice) because, again, it is presenting you with more things you have to learn about, that have nothing to do with programming.

I would get TextWrangler and give that a try - it's a decent text editor for the Mac. Another alternative you could try is the Java-based jedit, which is somewhere between simple text editor and full-blown IDE. It starts out as a text-editor but with hundreds of plugins and extensions available, can grow with you as your needs mature.

This has nothing to do with Clover Configurator - that app just fills in text strings for you. You should get comfortable manually editing your config.plist

Use a pro text editor like Text Wrangler (don't use Apple's TextEdit.app) - http://www.barebones.com/products/TextWrangler/download.html

mount your EFI partition - http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/files/file/528-efi-mounter/

https://www.tonymacx86.com/resources/efi-mounter-v3.280/

open your config.plist in the editor, edit the string you want, save, reboot.

not sure you'll see improvement, you may see a hit in performance. This could trigger firmware updates too - never try to install those. ever.

report back.

I do something kind of like that myself, except I use <code>tree</code> instead.

tree --du -h /Volumes/Drive >/Volumes/NAS/DiskIndexes/Drive.txt

I can then search through all the text files using either grep (grep 'text' /Volumes/NAS/DiskIndexes/*) or a multi-file search in TextWrangler.

While grep is included with ~~OS X~~ macOS by default, tree is not. However you can easily install it with Homebrew, along with ffmpeg.

One of the best things about this solution is its simplicity. I don't have to worry about someone losing a license code, or unsanitized database inputs, or any of that kind of jazz. It's just text files! Anything can read 'em! And it's cross-platform, so if we switch to Windows in the future we don't have to worry about losing our cataloging solution.

BIRTH~1 is a ClarisWorks 3 Picture Text document - Apple Works isn't playing, but I found the headers for the file by using Text Wrangler to look inside the file.

BIRTHDAY 99 copy is a duplicate of the first file you linked, and the

IANM-B~1 file headers say it's an Adobe PhotoDeluxe image, but none of the graphics programs I have - Photoshop, Graphic Converter, or my actual OS 9 version of PhotoDeluxe will touch it so it might be corrupted.

Personally, I use Text Wrangler for most everything and only go to the IDE to compile and test. I also still write code on paper sometimes. It's just a good mental exercise.

> generally if you're doing more dev type work you'll either pimp the fuck out of them with plugins

But if you're generally doing stuff somewhere in between, programs like NPP hit a pretty good sweet spot of fully featured, but not overly featured.

For what it's worth, I used to be a Mac user (haven't been for more than a few years now), and TextWrangler is still my favorite editor for small projects or longer individual scripts. I wish it were cross platform, because it strikes the perfect balance for me, usually. I'm still looking for one that I like as much as it. Maybe one day I'll write a clone. Maybe. Maybe.

(Also, not to get too personal but buggery is sort of the opposite of annoying to me.)

Might be an issue with character encoding, but looks more like corruption. I really hope you have a backup. :( Try opening it in Notepad or Word on your Mac if you have them. Or download TextWrangler and try opening it.

If nothing else will open it, I suggest taking it to a local repair shop (not Geek Squad) ASAP to see if they can recover a previous version of the file.

I'll echo /u/lelynx, TextWrangler is pretty great and it's free. TextWrangler is kinda like the free version of BBEdit.

If you use Firefox, I would also incorporate Firebug into your workflow: it adds additional functionality to FF's built in web development stuff.

If you're feeling really ambitious, you should try setting up a local web server development environment. This will make it even easier to test out changes before going live.

That's a neat trick; didn't know that one.

This, though, is one of the reasons I love having Flycut.

Before that (and I still do this for assembly/editing); I would copy and then paste into TextWrangler, which is wholly plain text, to strip out all the formatting.

I also installed DevonTech's WordService, which is a great little swiss army knife kind of utility; cmd-shift-7 and I strip all excess carriage returns (or add them; helpful when copying/pasting from Newspaper sites, for instance), double-spacing after punctuation, etc.).

If your trying to edit your hosts file, your better off using the free TextWrangler here and "Open File by Name" from the file menu.

http://www.barebones.com/products/TextWrangler/

Be careful, only add to the bottom of the hosts file in such a manner as such

0.0.0.0 www.applecheesedoodle.com

If you need to add a comment, then use the # sign in front.

With the #in front it tells the computer to ignore that line.

Don't touch what you see in the original hosts file, in fact you should copy it and save it someplace so you can place it back in.

Apple has screwed you and didn't tell you they dropped 10.6 for support and security updates

Also, a cool, free application called TextWrangler is a text-editor that is slightly more powerful than TextEdit and is pretty useful when dealing with text files like program configs and HTML files.

>Don't use a program.

He should certainly use a program. Just not a WYSIWYG program. I would recommend Notepad++ for Windows or TextWrangler for Mac

As far as editors go, I use Notepad++ for Windows, and TextWrangler for OSX. Both are general purpose text editors for programmers. I've used them to write in: Python, C#, HTML, and CSS. Currently trying to learn PHP, too.

Usually, this means "no, but if the next XCode for lion offers something that makes it trivial across the existing code base, then absolutely"

I prefer TextWrangler anyhow.