Programmers Text Editor

[redneon]

Can anyone recommend a decent text editor for programmers (preferably free)?

I used to use MultiEdit or TextPad in Windows and am looking for something similar for OS X.

EDIT: I should probably add that I want hex editing features and such.

 

[tehybrid]

not sure if it does hex editting but i (and ALOT of people) like textmate

 

[Mitthrawnuruodo]

I use TextWrangler as my all-purpose text editor. Powerful, but free... 🙂

As for hex editor, I don't know, but I'm pretty sure you'd be better of with one good text editor and a good hex editor instead of some application doing a half...good job on both... 😉

 

[janey]

textmate is awesome if you can deal with some of the current limitations (like fixed-width-ness).

wait for 2.0 to be released if you want to buy it though 😉

 

[epochblue]

textmate is awesome if you can deal with some of the current limitations (like fixed-width-ness).

wait for 2.0 to be released if you want to buy it though 😉

TextMate 2.0 will be a free upgrade to anyone who purchased 1.0, so there's no penalty for buying it now. I would like to second the recommendation for TextMate, though, it's an incredibly powerful text editor.

SubEthaEdit is also nice as it allows for real-time, collaborative editing (if you need that kind of thing).

Smultron is a decent freeware editor (although the icons are crap).

...as for a hex editor, I'll be of little help to you there.

 

[iJawn108]

Just use textedit

 

[kainjow]

Just use textedit

...if you code in color 😉

As for hex editors, I use Hex Fiend and HexEdit, which doesn't have a public Intel build yet, although I have compiled one here.

 

[Mitthrawnuruodo]

Just use textedit

Use anything but TextEdit for text only documents (though it's actually a very nice, light weight rich text word processor).

For programming, with syntax highlighting and other text tools, use something better, much better, like the ones mentioned above...

 

[Eraserhead]

For Hexediting use HexEdit.