[OT] Which IDE / Editor do you use?

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2013-09-15 13:12, Nick Sabalausky wrote:

> Yea, that one I picked up a few weeks ago when I first tried to test
> the release builder script on OSX. I couldn't for the life of me figure
> out how to get Finder to show the temp directory, so a little bit of
> web searching led me to that. But I didn't know it worked for files,
> too.

In Path Finder, which I use instead of Finder, I have a menu and toolbar 
button for showing hidden files.

> The windows version is (for directories only):
> $ explorer .

Didn't know about that.

> Ahh, ok. I knew about bundles, but I didn't know the command line
> didn't do the same special handling for them, too.

It depends on the tool. Most standard Unix tools will treat them as 
directories. Apple modifies some tools to add Mac specific features. For 
example, the modified most of the developer tools to add support for 
universal binaries.

> I see, that's interesting. So it does have a special way to launch an
> app asynchronously without the "&" at the end of the command line. Does
> it also gag stdout/stderr?

No, not if it's launched through "open". Standard Mac application (built 
with Objective-C using XCode) will use the NSLog function. This prints 
to a standard log file, which can be view using 
/Applications/Utilities/Console.app

Although cross-platform application may gag out text all over the place. 
They usually all fail on Mac OS X. No unified toolbar, no dialog sheets 
and so on.

> Am I correct in assuming "open" is specifically an OSX thing, and not
> something inherited from BSD?

Yes, from the man page:

HISTORY
      First appeared in NextStep.

https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man1/open.1.html

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg