TextWrangler is a lot more advanced than Smultron, and in some areas actually even better than Notepad++. Therefore I decided to look for an alternative * free * text editor, and it was TextWrangler that has won me over.

100k lines), as well as in some cases difficulty detecting UTF-8 encoding properly. And although it’s fast enough, I have had some issues while loading large files (e.g. The problem is that Smultron is not being developed any more. Unfortunately Notepad++ has not been ported to Mac OS yet.įor quite a long time on Mac OS I have been running Smultron as the main text editor. While using Windows at the office, Notepad++ (free application) is my favorite text editor. Features like code syntax highlighting, line numbers, extended search and replace, proper encoding support etc, are essential elements. However power users, or software developers are always in need of a more advanced text editor.

Casual users might be satisfied with plain text editors, such as TextEdit on Mac OS, or Notepad on Windows.

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