So I decided,
since i'm trying to be all Apple-using, to start using Project Builder
as my text editor. Now, compared to BBEdit Lite, Project Builder is
slow and has a lot less features. But it is a text editor and does just
enough to not really annoy me. The biggest thing it lacks is a good
multi-file search and replace. You have to have all the files open or
in a project -- so I tried making a 10 000 file project and it chokes
Project Builder for a few minutes every time I open up the project.
Alternatively, I'm going to use the Mac OS Finder's Find By Content and
then open all the files and batch search and replace. With Mac OS X
10.2 there is no background indexer. Instead, the indexes are built the
first time you do a Find By Content and rebuilt as needed. The effect
is that the first n entries come up really quickly and then the
progress bar spins for a few minutes while the index is updated. Good
if you haven't added any data that you're searching for, standard slow
otherwise.
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Wesser
overhauled the Hudson Leick web site and apparently we dropped all
pretenses to an Official Fan Club -- a lot of plans but we never did
anything concrete. The web site is now Hudson Leick Online and it's not
bad. The new forums are nice -- it's running Ikonboard which seems to a
fairly standard bulletin board system much like the vBulletin that
rpg.net runs.
I'm trying to consciously post more on the HLO Forums. Since it's new
everybody started out at 0 and I thought it'd be nice to participate.
Rpg.net has so much history and traffic that it's hard to break into
that and other boards I'm on are too serious. I'm still not going to
post "me too" and "good job" posts and after a month I'm a mid-tier
poster, which is good enough for me.
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