What the best text editor do you recommend for a mac?

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I’ve heard that Notepad++ is the best text editor out there. Unfortunately it doesn’t work on a Mac from what I gathered when I made a Google search.
What text editor do you recommend for a Mac?
Thanks in advance:)

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vim :wink:

But seriously, TextMate always seems to be recommended by Mac web developers.

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Hi Dan,
I was on PC before I switched to a Mac recently, but now that I’m interested in web designing, it seems it’s harder to get tutorials for building websites on a Mac. Pretty everybody around me have a PC!
It seems there isn’t a big choice of text editors for Mac. Oh well I should have thought twice before moving to a Mac:(
Thanks for your message:)

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Hi lila23,

as Dan said, Textmate is indeed a fantastic editor. Perhaps it’s even the most sophisticated editor for the Mac. If you’re looking for a more complete solution, then [URL=“http://www.panic.com/coda/”]Coda might be of interest to you. The quality of that app is just as good, so you can’t go wrong with trying out both. I have both and use them excessively.

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can’t make any recommendations, but thought I’d give you a few more to look at…just so you know there’s plenty of stuff out there for macs. :smiley:

BBEdit - commercial
http://www.barebones.com/products/bbedit/

TextWrangler…free alternative to BBEdit
http://www.barebones.com/products/TextWrangler/

Komodo Edit - free, open-source
http://www.activestate.com/komodo_edit/

Taco HTML Edit -commercial
http://tacosw.com/htmledit/

skEdit - commercial
http://www.skti.org/skedit/

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Thank you all of you!!! I was becoming desperate:)
I already have Textwrangler, but I read that it had some drawbacks. Wherever I looked it seemed that Notepad++ was the best, but not for Macs:(
Again thanks a lot. I will download Textmate and Coda.:slight_smile: