It’s Alive! The Best Free Text Editor For Mac Users
I was talking on the phone this morning with Kate MacKenzie and made the mistake of asking, “What’s new?”
20 minutes later—after hearing about that idiot co-worker, this nosey relative, two rude waiters, a dropped iPhone, and a cop chasing a guy on the subway, all I could remember is, “Did you know TextWrangler is at version 3.0?” Simultaneously, Kate and I both said, “I thought TextWrangler was discontinued.” It’s not. It’s alive.
At version 3.0 there may not be a need to buy a commercial text editor. Ever..... (excerpted).
5 Reader Comments
Kenji said:
What’s wrong with emacs or vi on your Mac? They’re free and very capable. TextWrangler is for amateurs.
casey said:
I gotta get out more. I thought Text Wrangler was dead. I wonder why they added so many features to a free editor?
iggy pence said:
Dude, TextMate is good, but it’s not free. You’ll be missing a pocket full of Euros when you but TextMate.
Text editors are a dime a dozen. A text editor that you can learn to use will usually cost money.
cubestar said:
I think textmate is the nicest lightweight freebee on the Mac.
I would also recommend checking out Komodo edit, it’s the nicest free, a-platform, full-featured editor that I have seen!
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zerocool said:
I use textWrangler for a while now. I think it is a great text editor and the price is nice as well. Maybe it is because my needs are not the those of an expert. I use it mostly for text editing html and css. thanks to http://pixobebo.com/ for pointing it out.