![]() The only devs I know who like TextMate are Ruby fans. Some more obscure languages are not as well-supported in it, but for most purposes it's fantastic. I primarily use it for HTML, CSS, JS, and Python, where it's extremely strong. In 9.0, BBEdit has code completion, projects, and a ton of other improvements. The clippings system works like magic, and has selection, indentation, placeholder, and insertion point tags, it's not just dumb text.īBEdit is heavily AppleScriptable. The regexp and multiple-file Find dialogs beat anything else for usability. It handles gigantic files with ease most text editors (TextMate especially) slow down to a dead crawl or just crash when presented with a large file. BBEdit makes all other editors look like Notepad.They work for some people, but most "advanced" users I know (myself included) hate touching them with anything shorter than a 15ft pole. You can fetch it here.Īlternatively, if you want to use Vim on OS X, I've heard good things about MacVim.īeyond those, there are the obvious TextEdit, TextMate, etc line of editors. Currently it requires Leopard with the latest release, but most people have upgraded by now anyway. ![]() It fits in well enough with the operating system, but at the same time, is the wonderful Emacs we all know and love. It is as close as you'll get to GNU Emacs without compiling for yourself. That might sound well and all, but once you realize that it completely breaks nearly every standard keybinding and behavior of Emacs, you begin to wonder why you aren't just using TextEdit or TextMate.Ĭarbon Emacs is a good Emacs application for OS X. It tries to twist and bend Emacs into something it's not (a super-native OS X app). TextWrangler seems to have more power under the hood than Smultron, but that hasn't been too important, at least not yet.If you ever plan on making a serious effort at learning Emacs, immediately forget about Aquamacs. TextWrangler and I got off to a bad relationship, but after all of these customizations I may actually use it from time to time instead of Smultron, but for the time being it's Smultron's job to lose. TextWrangler also lets you run shell commands and has some interesting AppleScript functionality. Positive features include support for the Mac metaphor, speed, spell-checking, and the ability to remove all of the window adornments - a feature I like very much, and included in the blog editor I wrote for my own use. On the positive side, after making customizations to the font, the colors, and which UI widgets are displayed and which aren't displayed, using TextWrangler has been a more pleasant experience of late. And like Smultron, I wish TextWrangler offered an auto-complete feature. Instead of being centered, some of the dialogs ended up in the upper-left corner of my display. Another irritation is that dialogs don't end up in the right places. The initial choice of fonts and colors is less than pleasing, and while it seems fast, it's almost frenetically fast - it seems jumpy. ![]() I found the initial TextWrangler experience to be very disappointing. Although my initial experience with it was disappointing, it has been growing on me a little bit recently. So, for now, Smultron is my plain-text editor of choice, but TextWrangler has been growing on me recently, and may soon pass Smultron.Ĭoming from the same people that make BBedit, I had great expectations for the BareBones TextWrangler. If Smultron offered an auto-complete language feature for CSS and HTML (it does have support for these languages, but I haven't found an auto-complete feature), I'd probably use it all the time, and not bother with Komodo. ![]() Other than that, the basic Smultron features include: spell-checking, line numbering, the ability to edit multiple files simultaneously, a nice split-window view, full support for the Mac OS X metaphor, the ability to hide most UI widgets, and many other features. Hopefully this is a bug that will be fixed soon. I keep turning off line numbers, and every time I restart Smultron they're back on again. While I'll be using Komodo for editing language files (CSS, HTML, others), I'm currently using Smultron as a plain text editor instead of TextMate, and so far, I like it.īefore I get into the positive features, Smultron currently has one really annoying feature: It keeps forgetting that I don't like to have line numbers displayed. Other than the application icon they use, Smultron looks as Mac-like as any text editor I reviewed. I just visited the Smultron website, and the author has decided to discontinue development of the project. UPDATE: Smultron is dead long live Smultron.
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