[Pipmak-Users] Re: Basic Mac help

[Christian W. <cwa...@gm...>]

Hello Liam

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On to the important stuff: :)

Liam Shannon wrote:
> Perhaps the best way to move forward would be to ask a question and
> then go off with the answer and work until the next problem is
> encountered.

That's what I had in mind. It's actually the very purpose of this 
mailing list.

> Not fast but...

I think it's actually faster (or at least more time efficient for me) 
than if I wrote a full tutorial, because this way I don't have to 
explain the steps that you do figure out yourself.

> Now, if one double clicks or tries to open the "main.lua"  or any of the 
> node.lua files in order to see what is written in them or to modify what 
> is written so as to create your own world,  it says there is no default 
> application set to open the document.
> ...
> So how is one to see what is written in the lua node files so as to 
> change it?

Good point. That's one of the issues that I would never have thought of, 
even though I guess it's a natural obstacle for non-technical users. (To 
be perfectly clear, that's *my* fault, not yours.)

Anyway, the Lua files are ordinary plain text files that you can open 
with any text editor. TextEdit that comes with Mac OS X (in the 
Applications folder) does the job, if you want more comfort such as 
syntax coloring or more sophisticated search features you can try 
SubEthaEdit (<http://www.codingmonkeys.de/subethaedit/index.html>, 
version 2.2 is free) or TextWrangler 
<http://www.bbedit.com/products/textwrangler/index.shtml>. Don't use 
word processors like Word or Pages, they will mess up the text with 
their formatting data (and in TextEdit, make sure that you keep the 
files as "Plain Text", not "Rich Text").

Select a Lua file in the Finder, choose "Get Info" from the File menu, 
open the "Open with" compartment, choose "Other Application..." from the 
popup menu and select TextEdit (or whatever text editor you want to 
use), then click the button below to apply the change to all Lua files. 
You should then be able to double click the files to open them.

> Again, thanks for any help. And by the way, I will be more than happy to 
> write up this process for new users as soon as I understand it myself.

That would be very much appreciated.

Good luck in your proceeding!

  -Christian