Right... so I have this large large large text file. 862 MB. And I wanted to change the first few lines on it.
First I tried the usual editors... BBEdit, Coda, TextMate, TextWrangler etc. All crashed and burned.
My live blog site runs on ColdFusion (using JRun) with the SES servlet mappings in web.xml. I use the excellent MangoBlog engine for powering my blog. All this means that I have pretty-ish URLs like http://nagpals.com/blog/post.cfm/ftp-in-eclipse-hooray.
Today I wanted to run a copy of my blog on a dev box. But on that dev box, I chose to use JBoss-Tomcat. And the SES servlet mappings that work in ColdFusion on JRun, do NOT work on ColdFusion on Tomcat-JBoss as they are not supported by the servlet engine.
To get around it, I simply used Apache-based rewrites so that the SES urls like http://nagpals.com/blog/post.cfm/ftp-in-eclipse-hooray automatically get mapped to http://nagpals.com/blog/post.cfm?entry=ftp-in-eclipse-hooray.
Here are the rewrites that I put in place to get posts, categories, pages and search to work.
After my last post on FTP in Eclipse, I started using Coda as an alternative editor for CFML. Must say that it is one of the nicest applications that I've used (sorry Windows users, it is a Mac only app).
It support CFML code completion, snippets and syntax highlighting. Very quick and easy to use.
In fact, I switched all text files to open in Coda. It is quite extensible and provides quite a few language modules for syntax highlighting and code completion.
Since I'm usually twiddling with Apache conf files, I found an Apache language module (http://www.codingmonkeys.de/subethaedit/modes.html). However, that module is quite old... it was last updated in 2004.
So, I decided to spend a little time and bring it up to date. It now supports all directives and keywords up to Apache 2.2.