Re: read CSV)
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg117843] Re: read CSV)
- From: Bill Rowe <readnews at sbcglobal.net>
- Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2011 02:35:23 -0500 (EST)
On 3/31/11 at 11:52 AM, mathgroup at stein.org (James Stein) wrote:
>1. I'm curious to know what Mac editor(s) you use. (I use BBEdit or
>WordWrangler, which give good grep, but I haven't discovered how to
>save favorite macros between sessions.)
I use BBEdit.
>2. Would you share your *Mathematica function that accepts a
>filename as an argument and has the file opened up by *[your] *text
>editor"*?
bbedit[filename_String]:=Run["bbedit", "'"<>filename<>"'"]
bbedit[]:=Run["bbedit", "'"<>Directory[]<>"'"]
bbedit[filename_String, switches__]:= Run["bbedit", switches, StringJoin@=
@{"'",filename,"'"}]
Here, I make use of the underlying Unix system and the command
line tools supplied with BBEdit.
The command is set so that doing
bbedit[]
opens a BBEdit browser window displaying files in the current
working directory of Mathematica. Note, for this to work as
described requires certain preferences to be set correctly in
BBEdit. With factory defaults, you will get a project widow
rather than a file browser window.
bbedit[filename]
opens a widow where the contents of filename are editable
bbedit[filename, switches]
allows me to have the cursor positioned at a specific line etc,
when BBEdit opens the file. I find, I seldom use this last
variation of this command.