a good, free text/code editor on Mac OSX

[crmpicco]

Hi,

Can anyone recommend a good, free code/text editor for OSX? I am used to using either EditPlus or notepad++ on Windows, but i'm aware that neither of these programs have OSX equivalents.

Any recommendations?

Cheers,
Picco

 

[GGJstudios]

TextEdit

 

[celticpride678]

TextEdit is a good text editor and TextWrangler does code and text.

 

[miles01110]

nano, emacs, vim, pico...

...you should already have them installed. Launch Terminal, type any of the above, and hit enter.

 

[wilsonhaven]

I like jEdit. It has the best search feature I've ever seen. It is called hypersearch. The search returns a tree of links.

 

[Isair]

If you installed dev tools then Dashcode as a lightweight editor is really useful.

 

[GoCubsGo]

Another vote for Text Wrangler here.

 

[wrldwzrd89]

TextWrangler's great if what you need is a Mac OS X tool. If you're seeking something cross-platform look at jEdit.

 

[redwarrior]

I like TextWrangler but only use it now for composing responses in my online classes. Toward the middle of my web interface class I started using Komodo Edit. I don't use anything else anymore, but all I have done is HTML and PHP.

 

[gks]

If you require a mac gui, I'd suggest TextWrangler

If you're open to trying something different I'd check out emacs and vim (specifically MacVim). Both are very powerful and offer you a lot more than what you'll get in a gui text editor. But it's layers and layers deep. Both will have a big learning curve but it pays off.

 

[crmpicco]

Cool! I'll give TextWrangler a try.

I had BlueFish installed, but it didn't do saving to remote files. Pah.

Picco