TUAW's Daily Mac App: TextWrangler
Trawling through and editing code can be loveless task. TextWrangler is a free app from the Mac App Store that could make it just a little bit more bearable.
Brought to you by Bare Bones Software, the folks behind Yojimbo and the incredibly powerful BBEdit, the free TextWrangler is pretty intuitive and feature rich. Starting out as BBEdit lite, TextWrangler is a fully fledged editor in its own right. You've got pattern matching, full search and replace, syntax highlighting for quite a few source code languages, code folding, which compresses the code down to a more manageable length, and many other text manipulation and batch processing features.
The interface is pretty simple to navigate with most needed tools available via an icon or keyboard shortcut, plus there is some decent text color-coding that makes reading code a little easier. You can open and save over FTP and SFTP, streamlining HTML authoring. TextWrangler even has support for both AppleScript and Mac OS X Unix scripting, making batch processing easy.
Whether you're looking for a decent editor for HTML, CSS, XML or anything else, TextWrangler is a great free starting point. If you're just looking for an editor for writing plaintext files, a replacement for TextEdit, or modifying XML, .plist files or something similar, then TextWrangler is more than up to the job.
TextWrangler is available for free in a slightly limited form from the Mac App Store and in its full glory from the Bare Bones Software website and will work on Mac OS X 10.5 and up.
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TextWrangler is a great product. I actually considered buying BBedit at some point but ended up not doing it because I like TextWrangler better. It has code highlighting and works great for simple text edits and small scripts.
One of the first tools to be installed on a new machine and the commandline tools are pretty useful too .. basically allow you to open certain modes in TextWrangler from the shell (like diff or a simple edit)
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Great app, I use it on all my computers that aren't my core developing machines, which have BBedit on them naturally.
June 21 2011 at 11:55 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyLove TextWrangler! Some more TW goodies here... including installing Markdown processing! http://pennywised.com/markdown-in-textwrangler
June 21 2011 at 11:43 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyOh, really? What are the differences? I moved to the Mac App Store version thinking it was the same.
June 21 2011 at 3:22 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Replyhttp://www.barebones.com/store/macappstore.html
... authenticated saves (the ability to save changes to files that you do not own) and the command-line tools are not available in the App Store versions, in order to comply with Apple’s submission guidelines.
The website offers command-line tools as a separate download, so authenticated saves is the only limitation.
"In BBEdit and TextWrangler, authenticated saves (the ability to save changes to files that you do not own) and the command-line tools are not available in the App Store versions, in order to comply with Apple’s submission guidelines."
http://www.barebones.com/store/macappstore.html
Use it and love it for local files. Flow is great for editing HTML on remote servers. http://fivedetails.com/flow/
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