SubEthaEdit

SubEthaEdit, named after a famous net in The Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy (SubEthaNet — long before Internet was invented), and is a standard text editor, just like TextEdit, NotePad, or whatever.

We have bought a site version of SubEthaEdit for this project. Talk to Trond.

Under the first menu (SubEthaEdit), choose "preferences", and the tab "Editing". "Default encoding" should be "UTF-8" and "Line endings" should be "Unix (LF)". "Highligth Syntax", "Show matching brackets", "Show line numbers" and "Wrap lines by word" are nice choices as well.

On the "Printing" tab, "Show line numbers" is a good choice.

On the "Advanced" tabs, install the command line tools.

Basic usage of SubEthaEdit requires no tutorial. Just write, erase, and move around with the arrow keys. But SubEthaEdit may be a much more efficient tool. Here are some hints:

1. Most basic emacs commands work in SubEthaEdit. Cf. the list below, where "C-a" means "hold down the ctrl key and press A"

   C-a, C-e, C-p, C-n

   Beginning of line, end of line, previous line, next line

   C-k, C-d

   Delete the rest of the line, delete the next character

2. Ordinary Macintosh commands work (command and then x, c, v, z, a for cut, copy, paste, undo and select all
3. The Find/Replace command supports regular expressions
4. Have a look at the "Settings" options in the SubEthaEdit menu. Make "Show line numbers" and "Show matching parenthese" default.

You may invite other people into your document. Do as follows:

1. On the top of the document, press the yellow Announce symbol on the top left corner of the document.
2. In the pop-up window to the right, your name will appear. Above it, change Locked to Read/Write
3. Find you IP-number (if you have the program IPMenu, it is there, or eventually, in the Terminal, write ifconfig, and pick the number following the text inet.
4. Give it to the ones you want to invite, in the form see//123.123.123.123/. They may click on it, and they will then appear in the document.

Last modified: $Date: 2008-11-05 18:52:54 +0100 (ons, 05 nov 2008) $, by $Author: boerre $