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

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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.

You can even use TextMate as your text editor in the terminal with the command mate. If you're looking for a WYSISYG editor, TextMate—and this entire category—is not for you. Type: FREE Made for: Mac. Exclusive for Macs, the TextMate is a free text editor that comes with a superb GUI and command console. The tool comes packed with features that make it a blessing not just for the pros but also for those who have just ventured into programming. Now before you look for best text editors for Mac one must know little about text editor. A text editor is a program that serves the purpose of editing the plain text files. A text editor is a program that serves the purpose of editing the plain text files.

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Aquamacs and closer to the original EMacs
TextMate2 - GPL

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Thank you everybody that has added suggestions.

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I haven't used it myself, but another free one that I've heard good thing about is Smultron.

In my own research on this, I found this interesting article:Faceoff: Which Is The Best Mac Text Editor Ever?

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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Vim

But I use TextMate, and can say that it is, without a doubt, worth every penny I paid for it.

Sublime text is awesome (http://www.sublimetext.com/2). Excellent search features, very fast and lightweight. Very decent code completion.

I also use RubyMine and WebStorm a lot (http://www.jetbrains.com/). They are excellent but not all purpose like TextMate.

I've tried Komodo out a bit, and I really like it so far. Aptana, an Eclipse variant, is also rather useful for a wide variety of things. There's always good ole' VI, too!

If you ever plan on making a serious effort at learning Emacs, immediately forget about Aquamacs. It tries to twist and bend Emacs into something it's not (a super-native OS X app). That might sound well and all, but once you realize that it completely breaks nearly every standard keybinding and behavior of Emacs, you begin to wonder why you aren't just using TextEdit or TextMate.

Carbon Emacs is a good Emacs application for OS X. It is as close as you'll get to GNU Emacs without compiling for yourself. It fits in well enough with the operating system, but at the same time, is the wonderful Emacs we all know and love. Currently it requires Leopard with the latest release, but most people have upgraded by now anyway. You can fetch it here.

Alternatively, if you want to use Vim on OS X, I've heard good things about MacVim.

Beyond those, there are the obvious TextEdit, TextMate, etc line of editors. They work for some people, but most 'advanced' users I know (myself included) hate touching them with anything shorter than a 15ft pole.

CotEditor is a Cocoa-based open source text editor. It is popular in Japan.

Best open source one is Smultron in my opinion, but it doesn't a torch to TextMate.

There's a new kid on the block - PHPStorm. I used it for a whole year. Its not free but offers an individual license of 49$ for a year, free for Open Source Developers.

Speedy for an IDE - Its based on Java so looks somewhat like Eclipse/Netbeans but smokes them to dust in terms of speed (not as fast as Coda/Textmate as this is an IDE).
Keyboard shortcuts galore - I seldom touched the mouse while developing using PHPStorm (that's what I didn't like about Coda)
Subversion support built-in - Didn't need to touch Versions or any other SVN client on Mac
Supports snippets, templates - zen-coding is supported as well
Supports projects, though in separate windows
File search, code search
code completion, supports PHPDoc code completion too

BBEdit makes all other editors look like Notepad.

It handles gigantic files with ease; most text editors (TextMate especially) slow down to a dead crawl or just crash when presented with a large file.

The regexp and multiple-file Find dialogs beat anything else for usability.

Hi everyone, I've got a question for you. I want to create a picture with round corners en specifically set the corner 'roundness' (Is that a word? You can't round the corners on a Text Box, but you can enter text into a shape drawn with the Rounded Rectangle tool. Regards, Bob J. Text boxes with rounded rather that angular corners may help draw the attention of readers to important content in your documents. Microsoft Word provides the tools you need to insert a predefined, rounded text box into your document or help you round the corners of an existing, sharp-edged text box. Oct 29, 2018 Right, Powerpoint provides us with four different options for round cornered boxes. All four corner, top two corners, top left and bottom right and finally top right only. My issue is I would like to make the bottom right hand corner round and to use this shape to create editable text boxes and/or for placeholders. Powerpoint for mac rounded corners on text blocks. The article shows you a workaround approach that enables you to create a nice flowing — dare I say “sexy” — curved arrow in PowerPoint 2007. We can edit its corner points to create a curved swoosh arrow. Tip for Resizing Objects with Text in PowerPoint; PowerPoint Templates: Beware of the Footers!

The clippings system works like magic, and has selection, indentation, placeholder, and insertion point tags, it's not just dumb text.

BBEdit is heavily AppleScriptable. Everything can be scripted.

In 9.0, BBEdit has code completion, projects, and a ton of other improvements.

I primarily use it for HTML, CSS, JS, and Python, where it's extremely strong. Program that reads text for mac. Some more obscure languages are not as well-supported in it, but for most purposes it's fantastic.

The only devs I know who like TextMate are Ruby fans. I really do not get the appeal, it's marginally better than TextWrangler (BBEdit's free little brother), but if you're spending money, you may as well buy the better tool for a few dollars more.

jEdit does have the virtue of being cross-platform. It's not nearly as good as BBEdit, but it's a competent programmer's editor. If you're ever faced with a Windows or Linux system, it's handy to have one tool you know that works.
Vim is fine if you have to work over ssh and the remote system or your computer can't do X11. I used to love Vim for the ease of editing large files and doing repeated commands. But these days, it's a no-vote for me, with the annoyance of the non-standard search & replace (using (foo) groups instead of (foo), etc.), painfully bad multi-document handling, lack of a project/disk browser view, lack of AppleScript, and bizarre mouse handling in the GVim version.

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jEdit runs on OS X, being