10 Free Must Have Text Editors for Macintosh

Text editor is text editors are basically those soft wares that are used to edit mainly the plain texts. These text editors are very often provided with either operating systems or even software development packages and they can even be used very widely to change configuration files or even programming language source code. Some of the text editors that are available can be either just replacements or the others are full time programming editors.

These text editors are also very helpful sometimes in editing HTML codes. A few of these editors may be small and compact but they very effectively provide all the necessary functionality that is needed and the functions or features that people might expect from a good text editor.

Using these text editors you can also be very efficiently used for multiple files and these files can either be opened or even tiled in cascade windows. These text editors have all the basic functions such as undo or redo or even find and replace. Word replacing is another such basic feature that can be used. These text editors are not only well equipped with the basic functions but also have features like block functions , no file size limitation and also you can undo and redo unlimited times.

 

1) Eddie

Eddie is a programmers editor for MacOSX and Gnome Linux. Inspired by the Macintosh Programmer’s Workshop, Eddie brings some of it’s powerful features into a modern lightweight and capable programmer’s editor. Eddie is ideal for C++/Obj-C development using makefiles and shell tools but can also be used with XCode projects.

2) vim

MacVim is the text editor Vim for Mac OS X.Vim is a highly configurable text editor, freely available for many different platforms.

3) chocolatapp

Chocolat is a new text editor for Mac OS X, that combines native Cocoa with powerful text editing tools.

4) Coda

we code web sites by hand. And one day, it hit us: our web workflow was wonky. We’d have our text editor open, with Transmit open to save files to the server.

5) emacs 

GNU Emacs is an extensible, customizable text editor—and more. At its core is an interpreter for Emacs Lisp, a dialect of the Lisp programming language with extensions to support text editing 

6) espresso 

 

7) komodo-ide 

 

 

8) bluefish

Bluefish is a powerful editor targeted towards programmers and webdevelopers, with many options to write websites, scripts and programming code. Bluefish supports many programming and markup languages.

9) Textwrangler

TextWrangler is a very capable text editor. What sets BBEdit apart is its extensive professional feature set including Web authoring capabilities and software development tools.

10) smultron

With Smultron 5 for Mac OS X you can quickly and easily write and edit text. It is designed with an elegant user interface to be easy and intuitive to get started with but it is also has more powerful features when you need them.

You can quickly edit a web page, to-do list, script, novel or any kind of text and you have all your open documents easily accessible.

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