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managing long text files

hi:
i have plenty of ebooks as text files, personal notes and more. On my pda i have a program called isilo to manage them. The good thing about isilo is that if I open a file it continues were i left so it is very practical to read books or deal with long text files.

i was wondering which app do you recommend to do this on osx.

thanks

TOPICS: Mac OS X
jason.mcbrayer's picture

It seems i have to...

ezichko;7476 wrote:
It seems i have to manually add bookmarks to every file which is not so ideal. Also, why are this carbon and cocoa versions so big.(over 40mb).

The 'saveplace' package, which is part of Emacs, bookmarks every file you open automatically.

Options->Save Place In File Between Sessions
Options->Save Options

(This can also be done with M-x customize or Emacs Lisp, but this is the easy way).

The app bundles are probably big because they include all of the Emacs Lisp files and helper programs that in the command-line version are probably distributed over several directories. I'm not a Mac user, so I wouldn't know for sure.

ezichko;7476 wrote:

And if it supports green text over black background then...perfect!

The color-themes package will do what you want, or you can set your colours manually. color-theme-retro-green or color-theme-matrix will probably work for you.

 
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