I’m a command line guy – I spend 90% of my non-blog reading day in Terminal, working on Python apps on my Mac or SSHed into work and working on Java and Javascript applications. I do realize the benefit of “real” applications, for image editing, for advanced text processing and so forth. On the Mac you can send files to the default application easily:
open "Madeline Doll House.jpg"
(Don’t ask). If the Mac doesn’t know how to deal with the file type, or you want to specify a particular app, that’s cool too:
open -a smultron index.jd
Note that it doesn’t matter that I’m SSHed into a work computer – we got around that issue last week using MacFUSE.