Mac equivalent of Notepad?

[Gherkin]

I'm going to make the switch to a first time Mac user in a few months, and I have some questions as far as my web site developement.

Currently I use Notepad on my PC and save the file as a .html file. Then I drag that file into the open FTP of my site and it just overwrites the old file and puts the updated one up on the web.

Can I do something similar with a Mac?

 

[HexMonkey]

You can use TextEdit for basic text editing (it's included with Mac OS X), and it's more powerful then Notepad.

If you're looking for FTP programs, there's quite a few around, and some are free. Have a look on VersionTracker to find one (just do a search for ftp).

 

[Benjamin]

you can use os x's built in 'TextEdit' however when saving you will have to make sure you save plain text.. If you are doing html and such you should mb consider mb something more powerful imo..

all free options:

subethaedit: http://www.codingmonkeys.de/subethaedit/
tacohtml: http://www.tacosw.com/
hyperedit: http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~deutschj/HyperEdit/

if you don't like any of this, there are simple plain text editors around, just have to search either VersionTracker or Mac Update, or if you want get XCode (also free) and simple edit (under examples) is there which is a plain text editor.

oh and ftp.. if you want you can get Transmit and you can set for editing externally when connected and when you save a file it then uploads to your site. It is pretty neat. Others probably do that but i like transmit, however it isn't free. and of course any ftp application will let you drag in files to your server, just editing remotely is one of those perks with transmit imo.

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/60216/

 

[GovornorPhatt]

Or, if you perfer to do it the really geeky way, you can use Terminal and emacs, pico, or vi.

 

[macka]

I'd go TextEdit....if you're new to Macs.

 

[Westside guy]

SubEthaEdit (linked a couple posts above) is rather handy because it does context highlighting - a useful feature when you're programming/coding.

Since it's free you can try it out without risk.