TextEditor Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Daily Mac App and Friday Favorite: CodeRunner

by TJ Luoma (Jan 6th, 2012)

CodeRunner is a text editor for people who write code. It comes with built-in syntax highlighting for AppleScript, C, C++, Java, JavaScript (Node.js), Objective,C, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, or shell scripting. I have been using it for a few months, mostly for writing shell scripts, and love it. ...

Daily iPad App: Elements 2

by Kelly Hodgkins (Aug 19th, 2011)

Elements is one of many text editors available in the App Store. It supports Dropbox, Markdown and TextExpander which makes it popular among iOS users. It's available for the iPhone, iPod touch and the iPad, but the iPad version really shines as a text editor. Version 2 was just released and ...

TUAW's Daily Mac App: Byword

by Samuel Gibbs (Jun 29th, 2011)

To a writer a decent text editor is worth its weight in gold. Unlike Word or Pages, Byword is a text editor that gives you just enough to get the job done, while getting out of your way. In its most basic form it's a plain text editor, but it can also produce and edit rich-text files and ...

Ommwriter for iPad joins the distraction-free writing fray

by Dave Caolo (Jun 29th, 2011)

The iPad is a writing tool for many. It's something you can pop into a bag, pair with a keyboard and use for composition on-the-go. Most users graduate beyond the Notes app quickly, and that's when a text editor like Ommwriter for iPad (US$4.99) is considered. Ommwriter was born as a ...

TUAW's Daily Mac App: TextWrangler

by Samuel Gibbs (Jun 21st, 2011)

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 ...

UltraEdit makes the leap to Mac OS X

by Michael Terretta (Dec 31st, 2010)

UltraEdit for Mac was officially released this month. A favorite of Windows developers, UltraEdit was first released in 1994 as one of the earliest "Notepad" replacement text editors for programmers on Windows. When you use your computer for programming, you live in your text editor. Mac ...

Notational Velocity ALT adds Markdown support and widescreen view

by Richard Gaywood (Dec 12th, 2010)

The runaway success of the iPad has provoked significant demand amongst people who want to seamlessly edit cloud-synced files across their iOS devices and their computers. We've seen a lot of apps vying to be the iOS part of that solution (such as SimpleNote, Elements, WriteRoom, Edito and a whole ...

A quick roundup of iOS text editors with Dropbox support

by Steven Sande (Sep 29th, 2010)

This morning we received word from Jesse Grosjean at Hog Bay Software that his new app, PlainText (free, in-app purchase to remove ads), is now available on the App Store. It's one of several iOS text editors that feature support for Dropbox, so we thought a quick roundup of these apps was in ...

Dropbox + text editing = Droptext

by Steven Sande (Jul 11th, 2010)

Most of the bloggers here at TUAW are huge fans of Dropbox, the free cloud storage service. Since you can share documents with all of your iDevices, wouldn't it be nice to be able to edit your files from any of them as well? There are actually several solutions for cross-platform on-the-go ...

Freeware Find: Bean

by Steven Sande (Sep 12th, 2008)

Departing TUAW blogger Giles Turnbull caught my attention in his recent list of favorite Mac apps. At the top of his list was an application called Bean, which had the unfortunate effect of causing me to think about Rowan Atkinson's comedy character (at right). As soon as the nausea wore off, I took ...

Diamond, the rich text editor that thinks different

by Giles Turnbull (Aug 4th, 2008)

Diamond is a free rich text editor with a difference. Lots of differences, actually, which combine to make it quite appealing. Developer Geoffrey Alexander has recently released Diamond 3, which makes this an excellent time for you to download and give it a try. How is Diamond different? Diamond ...

SubEthaEdit version 3.0

by Mat Lu (Oct 24th, 2007)

SubEthaEdit is probably the original collaborative text editor on the Mac allowing multiple folks to work on a document at the same time over a local network or the internet. Now TheCodingMonkeys have released version 3.0 with a new custom file format that "stores collaboration metadata and history ...

Smultron: open source tabbed text editor hits version 3.0

by Mat Lu (Apr 24th, 2007)

It's true, I admit it, I have a bit of a thing for tabbed text editors (I'm seeking counseling). Anyway, I've discovered yet another one. Peter Borg (who is also behind the very cool Lingon launchd utility) has just released version 3 of his Smultron open-source text editor (with vertical tabs). ...

Forgedit: tabbed text editor

by Mat Lu (Mar 30th, 2007)

We posted a while back about the introduction of tabs into SubEthaEdit. I recently ran across another text editor that offers tabs called ForgEdit, which bills itself as the "programmers text editor for OS X." It seems to be a rather straightforward app with some decent, if not terribly innovative, ...

TextMate: Power Editing for the Mac

by Scott McNulty (Feb 28th, 2007)

Some people balk at the idea of paying for a text editor. 'Doesn't OS X ship with a pretty good text editor called TextEdit,' they say. That is very true, but if you make your living creating text documents (whether they be code, blog posts, or content of some other kind) TextEdit just won't cut it. ...