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What text editor is everyone using?

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No real Notepad 2 alternatives for the Mac. Smultron is about the best but it's been abandoned as a project. TextMate is pretty awesome but $60. TextWrangler is good but it's a Carbon app.

Any thing else?
 
BBEdit at Work
- Need to full file search across 5000+ text files
- Also need CVS support

TextMate at home -- My personal favorite, even without FTP.
- The only problem I have with TextMate is that there are no FTP options.
- Quick fix is to mount the share and access it that way, works great over Eth, not so great on Wireless.

BBEdit will give you some great tools and its pretty geared, but there are a few things I don't like, considering that its an editor. Most of the issues I have are with its FTP window, and how it interfaces with files (can't delete in a save window, have to keep an ftp window open to save FTP session.. etc).

There's Also: NetBeans, Eclipse, MacVim
 
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Just found out about Komodo Edit which seems ok for editing source. A little slow however. Just might have to eat it and pay the $60 for TextMate but really waiting on TextMate 2.
 
TextMate here... don't think I spent $60 on it though... maybe I got it in a bundle a couple years back?
 
Ka0t1x said:
BBEdit at Work
- Need to full file search across 5000+ text files
- Also need CVS support

TextMate at home -- My personal favorite, even without FTP.
- The only problem I have with TextMate is that there are no FTP options.
- Quick fix is to mount the share and access it that way, works great over Eth, not so great on Wireless.

BBEdit will give you some great tools and its pretty geared, but there are a few things I don't like, considering that its an editor. Most of the issues I have are with its FTP window, and how it interfaces with files (can't delete in a save window, have to keep an ftp window open to save FTP session.. etc).

There's Also: NetBeans, Eclipse, MacVim
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I use TextWrangler a (does it matter that it's a Carbon app?) and Trasmit combo. I sftp into my work computer remotely (I have to use Transmit, as it handles public key SSH properly. Cyberduck used to, but it got screwy when they switched to Ganymede SSH2, and no one really cares enough to fix it, I think. If you just straight login SFTP, this won't be an issue for you) via Transmit, and edit the files with TextWrangler. Local saves are sent to the work computer, and there we go. Sure an integrated solution would be nice,I guess, but I can't see the difference in workflow, other than having to open a separate app. And, of course, when I do, I get the full strength of a mature FTP for file manipulation.

If BBEdit or something supported public key SSH I might consider it, but for now, the workflow I have is good.

What I would like, however, are more IDE features (like completion of symbol names, automatic set/get prototype generation, etc).
 
Coda is also an awesome application. I would buy it, but by the time I found out about it I had already bought textMate and Cornerstone. So I didn't need it.
 
Just went back and tried TextWranger, man I was wrong. Still awesome. Does 98% of what I need. It's a keeper.
 
BBEdit would probably have the other 2% of the features you need, and another 200% on top of that. But it's ~$100. Sounds like TextWrangler is the way to go.
 
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BBEdit would probably have the other 2% of the features you need, and another 200% on top of that. But it's ~$100. Sounds like TextWrangler is the way to go.
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I used it for long time back in the G4 days and just remember it having bad performance, but on my Intel MBP it's as fast or faster than TextMate. No complaints.
 
FearoftheNight said:
What features do these programs have over textedit? Just curious. I'm thinking of checking out Mariner Write as well...
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I (think) most of us are using them for programming. Stuff like syntax highlighting, collapsable blocks, and countless other small, but handy things to aid in the writing of code.
 
Yeah honestly if I didn't need the CVS utils for at work, I wouldn't be using BBEdit, but just plain TextWrangler.

I also forgot:
Coda -- I absolutely loved this editor when I first used it, then quickly grew angry with it.
Espresso -- Again, its pretty nice when you first use it, but it seems like its a full release and charging money for it, but there's numerous bugs.
 
Textmate and Coda depending on what I am doing - each has its own advantages.

For those that want to check out Mariner Write, make sure to sign up on http://www.macheist.com/ (only 2 days left!) and you'll get M.W. for free once 500k get on the bandwagon. 😎
 
TextMate here.

Also, it has a pretty useful key based script that will utilize DockSend from Transmit, so that's how I use it. I prefer the integrated Transmit in Coda, but I really love tab commands in TextMate and code collapsing.
 
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