List of macOS text editors and code editors

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I searched for this and found Maudite s question about text editors but they were all for Windows   As you have no doubt guessed  I am trying to find out if there are any text code editors for the Mac besides what I know of  I ll edit my post to include editors listed   Free   Textwrangler Xcode Mac Vim Aquamacs and closer to the original EMacs JEdit Editra Eclipse NetBeans Kod TextMate2 - GPL Brackets Atom io   Commercial   Textmate BBEdit SubEthaEdit Coda Sublime Text 2 Smultron WebStorm Peppermint   Articles related to the subject   Faceoff  which is the best text editor ever  Maceditors com  mac editors features compared   Thank you everybody that has added suggestions

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You might consider one of the classics - they re both free  extensible and have large user bases that extend beyond the Mac    Aquamacs - emacs for OS X  emacs in a shell window is also an option  Mac Vim - VI with a Mac-specific GUI  vim in a shell window is also an option

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Another vote for Smultron  I used it when doing some XQuery programming and being able to define a keyword files for syntax color highlighting was great

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I like Aptana Studio and Redcar for rails programming

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jEdit runs on OS X  being Java-based  It s somewhat similar to TextMate  I think   Editra looks interesting  but I ve not tried it myself

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I thought TextMate was everyone s favourite  I haven t met a programmer using a Mac who is not using TextMate

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Textmate is state of the Art editor  but if someone is thinking about developing on several platforms without awkward memory eaters monsters like jedit  eclipse  netbeans etc take a look at geany  geany org   It is free  The only problem the editor has not esthetic look and feel on Mac OS X

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I actually prefer EditRocket over TextMate   I use it on both my Mac and Ubuntu machines   It is nice to use the same editor on multiple operating systems

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CotEditor is a Cocoa-based open source text editor  It is popular in Japan

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Coda s great for PHP ASP HTML style development   Great interface  multiple-file search and replace with regexp support  slick FTP SFTP etc integration for browsing and editing remote files  SVN integration  etc   It now supports plugins and the plugin editor can import TextMate bundles  so there s a bright future there   There aren t a lot of must-have plugins yet because the plugin support was newly introduced with version 1 6 a few months back   It s a popular app  though  so I expect more in the future   The  killer features  for me are    Seamless editing of remote files   Code navigator  symbol browser  pane that lists functions etc   Most people aren t really into using symbol browsers but as I have to maintain a lot of unfamiliar code I find them invaluable   I m not sure that Coda has the  raw power  of TextMate though   I plan on getting familiar with TextMate next

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My vote would be for BBedit s free little brother TextWrangler

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Definitely BBEdit  I code  and BBEdit is what I use to code

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I use Xcode and TextMate

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There s a new kid on the block - PHPStorm  I used it for a whole year  Its not free but offers an individual license of 49  for a year  free for Open Source Developers    Speedy for an IDE - Its based on Java so looks somewhat like Eclipse Netbeans but smokes them to dust in terms of speed  not as fast as Coda Textmate as this is an IDE   Keyboard shortcuts galore - I seldom touched the mouse while developing using PHPStorm  that s what I didn t like about Coda  Subversion support built-in - Didn t need to touch Versions or any other SVN client on Mac Supports snippets  templates - zen-coding is supported as well Supports projects  though in separate windows File search  code search code completion  supports PHPDoc code completion too

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BBEdit makes all other editors look like Notepad    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   The regexp and multiple-file Find dialogs beat anything else for usability   The clippings system works like magic  and has selection  indentation  placeholder  and insertion point tags  it s not just dumb text   BBEdit is heavily AppleScriptable  Everything can be scripted   In 9 0  BBEdit has code completion  projects  and a ton of other improvements   I primarily use it for HTML  CSS  JS  and Python  where it s extremely strong  Some more obscure languages are not as well-supported in it  but for most purposes it s fantastic   The only devs I know who like TextMate are Ruby fans  I really do not get the appeal  it s marginally better than TextWrangler  BBEdit s free little brother   but if you re spending money  you may as well buy the better tool for a few dollars more    jEdit does have the virtue of being cross-platform  It s not nearly as good as BBEdit  but it s a competent programmer s editor  If you re ever faced with a Windows or Linux system  it s handy to have one tool you know that works  Vim is fine if you have to work over ssh and the remote system or your computer can t do X11  I used to love Vim for the ease of editing large files and doing repeated commands  But these days  it s a no-vote for me  with the annoyance of the non-standard search  amp  replace  using  foo  groups instead of  foo   etc    painfully bad multi-document handling  lack of a project disk browser view  lack of AppleScript  and bizarre mouse handling in the GVim version

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I haven t used it myself  but another free one that I ve heard good thing about is Smultron   In my own research on this  I found this interesting article  Faceoff  Which Is The Best Mac Text Editor Ever

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If you ever plan on making a serious effort at learning Emacs  immediately forget about Aquamacs  It tries to twist and bend Emacs into something it s not  a super-native OS X app   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   Carbon Emacs is a good Emacs application for OS X  It is as close as you ll get to GNU Emacs without compiling for yourself  It fits in well enough with the operating system  but at the same time  is the wonderful Emacs we all know and love  Currently it requires Leopard with the latest release  but most people have upgraded by now anyway  You can fetch it here   Alternatively  if you want to use Vim on OS X  I ve heard good things about MacVim   Beyond those  there are the obvious TextEdit  TextMate  etc line of editors  They work for some people  but most  advanced  users I know  myself included  hate touching them with anything shorter than a 15ft pole

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MacVim and SubEthaEdit are two nice options

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I purchased Textmate because I liked it so much  one of the few apps I paid for  Other editors are just not worth it  If you are going for an IDE  eclipse or netbeans are great and free

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Eclipse and its variants  Netbeans

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I make use of Komodo IDE  It supports a huge number of languages  and is customisable but is a bit expensive  my company bought me a copy   A really good alternative is the free version called Komodo Edit  Loads really quickly and has a decent feature list and I find myself turning to it rather than the full IDE for a lot of jobs

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I use Eclipse as my primary editor  for Python  but I always keep SubEthaEdit handy as my supplemental text editor  free trial  30 euros to license   It s not super-complicated but it does what I need

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I used BBEdit for years  but recently converted to Panic s Coda   I love Coda  It does everything that I need and now that I ve begun programming plug-ins for it  it s become a far more rich tool  The support team are responsive and the community that is growing around it is fantastic  There is still a lot of room for improvement  but that s the cool thing about being part of the kind of community that surrounds it  you have a say in what that improvement is   Panic - Coda

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Best open source one is Smultron in my opinion  but it doesn t a torch to TextMate

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I have installed both Smultron and Textwrangler  but find myself using Smultron most of the time

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I prefer an old-school editing setup  I use command-line vim embedded in a GNU Screen  window  inside of iTerm   This may not integrate well with XCode  but I think it works great for developing and using command-line programs  If you spend any significant time working in a terminal  GNU Screen is worth the 30 minutes it takes to master the basic terminal multiplexing concepts

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I would love to use a different editor than XCode for coding  but I feel  that no other editor integrates tightly enough with it to be really worthwhile  However  given some time  TextMate might eventually get to that point  At the moment though  it primarily lacks debugging features and refactoring   For everything that does not need XCode  I love TextMate  If I had another Mac-user in my workgroup I would probably consider SubEthaEdit for its collaboration features  If it is Emacs you want  I would recommend Aquamacs  more Mac-like  or Carbon Emacs  more GNU-Emacs-like

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SubEthaEdit Coda DashCode with OS X 10 8 or older

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I ve tried Komodo out a bit  and I really like it so far  Aptana  an Eclipse variant  is also rather useful for a wide variety of things  There s always good ole  VI  too

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I have to say that i love Coda  it can do almost anything you need in  plain  text WebDevelopent  i use it daily to develop simple and complex projects using XHTML PHP Javascript CSS       Ok  it s not free but compare it with many other development suits and you ll find that that 100  are really affordable  i bought many months ago when it was at about 60   In the last version they included a lot of new nice features and whoa    just look at the panic WebSite   Before using coda i was a hardcore ZendStudio User  i used that in Windows Linux and Mac  i have been user for a long time for all that platforms   as it was developed in Java it was really slow even in a modern MacBookPro   so i also tested a lots of diferent IDEs for developing but at this moment any of these are as powerful and simple as Coda is

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I used to use PageSpiner from optima Software  http   www optima-system com pagespinner   but converted to Coda when Panic first released it and haven t looked back   Now that the latest version has multi-file find and replace it has just about everything I need and I use it on a daily basis  Another vote for Coda from me

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I ve been using BBEdit for years  It s rock-solid  fast  and integrates into my Xcode workflow decently well   I m not sure anything integrates into Xcode as well as the built-in editor  but who has time to wait for the built-in editor    For small team projects which don t use a source control system  or for single user editing on multiple machines  SubEthaEdit comes highly recommended

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Mac UltraEdit is out as of 2011 - http   www ultraedit com products mac-text-editor html  Very much a 1 0-ish feel and sluggish  though labeled 2 0 2   has all the great features of the Windows version  column edits  true hex mode  full out macro recording  and plugins for every language under the sun

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Emacs Vim   But I use TextMate  and can say that it is  without a doubt  worth every penny I paid for it

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Sublime text is awesome  http   www sublimetext com 2   Excellent search features  very fast and lightweight  Very decent code completion    I also use RubyMine and WebStorm a lot  http   www jetbrains com    They are excellent but not all purpose like TextMate

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Fraise is a nice free option  It has some rough edges  but you can t beat the price  I believe it s a fork or successor of Smultron

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Smultron is another good  and free  one

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I ve been using TextWrangler  it s pretty decent   But I REALLY miss the Search and Replace and other capabilities of UltraEdit    enough that it s usually worth firing up Parallels to use it instead  UltraEdit runs poorly under Wine at the moment

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Eclipse and Netbeans have text editors among a whole lot of other stuff  I don t think you would want to wait 10 seconds for your text editor to become ready      If you are going to spend some serious time coding then spend some time and learn to use vim  emacs too but  I recommend vim

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TextMate not for  advanced programmers   That does not make sense  TextMate contains everything an  advanced programmer  would want  It allows them to define a bundle that allows them to quickly set up the way they want their source code formatted  or one that follows the project guidelines  quick easy access to create entire structures and classes based on typing part of a construct and hitting tab   TextMate is my tool of choice  it is fast  lightweight and yet contains all of the features I would want in a tool to program with  While it is not tightly integrated in Xcode  that is not a problem for me as I don t write software for Mac OS X  I write software for FreeBSD

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