Pepper 3.6.1 fixes bugs under OS X
updated 12:45 pm EDT, Tue April 3, 2001
The $45 shareware text editor for programmers, Pepper 3.6.1, fixes some of the problems reported on OS X and adds a commandline launcher. It runs on both OS X and OS 9.
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04/03, 01:51pm |
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It's worth it
A piece of software this good is worth the price. It is well-designed, powerful and flexible.
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04/03, 02:55pm |
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politeness
It would also help if the author was friendly/polite. None of my email exchanges with have shown that. I'll stick to BBEdit, those people are great and the OS X version is supposed to come out soon.
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04/03, 03:14pm |
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ShareWare Authors are
ShareWare Authors are usually working part time on various projects, this is (in most cases) not their full time "job" that is paying all the bills.
Web space costs money, domain names must be re-registered, CodeWarrior is certainly not cheap, Apple's dev programs are pricey if you are a non-student.
Also developer-targeted software typically has a much narrower market than generall apps like FTP or MP3 players so the price can be higher to compensate (or to compensate for the complexity of maintaining the software and dealing with users who think they are perfect and all software is flawed).
The ShareWare market really has changed from the early-mid 90's. With apps like REALBasic anyone (literally, anyone) can make Mac programs. And now we have the same situation as on Windows - lots of quicky made, bloated (size and/or features) pricey ShareWare made by lots of less seasoned Mac programmers (teenagers) who just want too be "known" or make some money so they can buy CD-Rs to burn music CDs or buy better video cards or PS2 games or whatever.
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04/03, 04:26pm |
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i had problems with it...
of course I don't know what I'm doing, but my exchanges with the author didn't seem so bad. Although, he did seem to disbelieve my problem report, or even follow up on it to the point where it is fixed. (It was a problem he didn't have on his machine -- hte old 'ostrich' solution rears its ugly head -- or should I say doesn't?). So basically I gave up using Pepper and started using emacs from the command line, which I don't even know how to use, so of course it sucks. But at least it doesn't require me to type in my name and wait 4 seconds every time I want to save, like Pepper does unless you shell out 45 buckarooneys (US$).
When BBEdit OS X comes out, maybe I'll get that -- I like their motto quite a bit.
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04/03, 05:49pm |
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reasonable price
$45 is a very reasonable price for a text editor, especially one that's as customizable as Pepper. Sure, Pepper needs some fine tuning, but it's very hard to find a mac text editor that has syntax coloring for PHP, much less all the languages Pepper supports, and especially one that's as well thought out as Pepper. BBEdit is great, but isn't carbonized and costs $119!
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04/03, 05:54pm |
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reasonable price
$45 is a very reasonable price for a text editor, especially one that's as customizable as Pepper. Sure, Pepper needs some fine tuning, but it's very hard to find a mac text editor that has syntax coloring for PHP, much less all the languages Pepper supports, and especially one that's as well thought out as Pepper. BBEdit is great, but isn't carbonized and costs $119!
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04/03, 07:10pm |
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cheap text editor
Most of you who are big-time developers or have any budget whatsoever won't be interested. But otherwise... there is a program called MMKedit. It is, so far as I know, the only freeware (classic?) text editor that has syntax coloring. Now, the way the coloring is implemented is a bit primative, but if coloring is important to you (as it was to me) the price more than justifies trying it out. Finding the website is non-trivial (as the academics like to say), so here it is. http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~gf6d-kmym/en/
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04/04, 11:43am |
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Text Encodings
I rather like Pepper so far, but it suffers from the same problem I have with BBEdit: the inability to save files in other text encodings. I need to save documents in ISO-2022 or Shift-JIS or BIG5. Barebones plans to add such a feature, but at present I'm stuck using the PC.
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04/04, 01:54pm |
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$45 is not unreasonable..
I have been using pepper for several projects lately, one in C and some smaller perl scripts. I told myself that I would use it for a few weeks and either buy it or trash it at the end. It looks like I'm going to pay the $45, I would be happier about the purchase if pepper were cocoa instead of carbon, and it might solve some issues I have with it, but for GUI editing pepper is the best out there if you dont want to fire up classic.
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is it just me, or is the price of shareware going up!? $45 id waay to much foor this text editor. i could buy a full game or piece of boxed software for this price.