Mac text editors

TextEdit

TextEdit comes with Mac OSX. It is not really a text editor – it puts hidden stuff in the file.

To make it act as a text editor:

Preferences →

new file:

text format: utf-8

open/save:

don't automatically put .txt

some other stuff.

Now it works, but i am suspecting it puts doctype etc in the file.

TextWrangler

TextWrangler is a free text editor from BareBones. It seems to be possible as a real text editor. http://www.barebones.com/products/textwrangler/

Others

Other text editors, they all cost, and are pretty heavy.

mac_text_editors.html
Written Nov 2008
Revised 9 December 2009

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