On Sat, Mar 8, 2008 at 7:48 PM, Bill Hernandez <ms@mac-specialist.com> wrote:

On Mar 8, 2008, at 1:35 AM, paul beard wrote:

> and as a hint, if you install BBedit's command line tools, you can
> simply type "edit <filename>" instead of all that other stuff. Or use
> TextWrangler, for those who are short of coin. It has the same
> facility.

I included two very handy scripts for Leopard at the bottom, if you
don't like them, please ignore them.

"edit <filename>" didn't work for me using a shell worksheet

port installed > ~/installed_ports.txt
edit ~/installed_ports.txt
-bash: line 4: edit: command not found

[/Users/paul]:: edit -h

Usage: edit [-bcehlpuvVw] [+<line number>] ...

+<line number>

-b, --background

--clean

-c, --create

-e, --encoding <encoding>

-h, --help

-l, --launch

-p, --print

--resume

-t, --pipe-title

-u, --create-unix

-v, --version

--view-top

-V, --short-version

-w, --wait

--front-window

--new-window

--separate-windows

emacs is all very well if you learned it when you were of young and supple mind, but I am older than jkh and never did master emacs when I had the chance.