List of macOS text editors and code editors

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Teifion picture Teifion · Aug 21, 2008 · Viewed 250.1k times · Source

I searched for this and found Maudite's question about text editors but they were all for Windows.

As you have no doubt guessed, I am trying to find out if there are any text/code editors for the Mac besides what I know of. I'll edit my post to include editors listed.

Free

  1. Textwrangler
  2. Xcode
  3. Mac Vim
  4. Aquamacs and closer to the original EMacs
  5. JEdit
  6. Editra
  7. Eclipse
  8. NetBeans
  9. Kod
  10. TextMate2 - GPL
  11. Brackets
  12. Atom.io

Commercial

  1. Textmate
  2. BBEdit
  3. SubEthaEdit
  4. Coda
  5. Sublime Text 2
  6. Smultron
  7. WebStorm
  8. Peppermint

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Thank you everybody that has added suggestions.

Answer

Theo picture Theo · Aug 21, 2008

I thought TextMate was everyone's favourite. I haven't met a programmer using a Mac who is not using TextMate.

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