BBEdit

for example, my system will open ALL .php files in dreamweaver, while i prefer to have the system open them in bbedit ... ...

My suggestion was about copying and pasting to (or opening a file driectly in) BBEdit.

Thanks in advance. BTW, Copies and Pages from Summery doesn't show any option to select BBEdit as the target output. ...

I made a similar mistake and spent quite alot of time trying all sorts of fixes. In the end it was quite simple. simple put get a text editor which has a view hidden files option (BBEdit is an example) . Open your text editor, then navigate to your home directory (this is the directory identical to your username) once you open that, you will see you .bash_profile file. Select...

Ok. I figured it out. Most of the files are opened with Quicktime. So, if I go from BBEdit to Quick time in the "open with" command in "get info". I have a problem. ...

Some Pro Tools audio files I was working on mistakenly got changed to BBEdit Text Files. Now Pro Tools can't use them. How do I change them back? ...

Have you tried opening one of these files with a text editor, like Tex-Edit Plus or BBEdit, and seeing what is in them? Their contents might give you a clue as to why they are being created.

Or TextMate is pretty poplar, and a fair bit cheaper than BBedit (though I got it as part of a package deal for less than a single license costs bizarrely). If you need an IDE then OS X comes with one for free called Xcode. You install it of the disks that come with the machine normally.

You could try BBEdit from Bare Bones Software. ...

I've found MacFuse and sshfs surprisingly easy to install and use. I was using WebDAV to connect Versions to a Subversion working copy on a web server but it was not very reliable and pretty slow. So I tried out the above combination and it's pretty slick - fast and reliable. And if you wish you can do the bbedit ‘file’ command line thing if you want but it's just as...