I've been using BBEdit for more than a decade, and my sense is that it has
long been the most widely used non-Apple, commercial text editor for the
Mac. Many of the extra facilities it has (for example syntax-based text
coloring) are for programming languages (about fifty installed, including
68K assembler) and HTML. It doesn't have LaTeX coloring installed, but
I've found it fine for LaTeX, and it does have a good spelling checker.
Also it is thoroughly scriptable, and the company has registered the
trade-mark "It doesn't suck."
Haven't used any other text editors since I've been content with BBEdit
but again, I think it is the closest equivalent, at least in terms of
market share, to UltraEdit.
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On Thu, 31 Jan 2008, Kenneth Benoit wrote:
> Rodolfo Espino wrote:
>> Long time Windows user here. I have recently moved to Mac OS 10.5 and am
>> in
>> need of a good text editor. Any suggestions?
>>
>> I am desperately missing UltraEdit right now, especially being able to edit
>> in "column mode." I have been trying out Aquamacs a little, which seems to
>> have a lot of great features; but I have not been able to figure out if it
>> has a column mode similar to UltraEdit.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Rudy
>>
>
> Hi - I am a long-time Emacs user, most recently the Aquamacs implementation
> which is the best I've seen. It does not have a column selection mode as far
> as I know, if by this you mean the ability to highlight selections vertically
> instead of just horizontally (like mouse selections of text in Micr$oft Word
> while holding the ALT key).
>
> I've heard of a program called MacEdit which apparently does allow "column
> mode" and has some syntax highlighting features as well. See
> http://madedit.sourceforge.net.
>
> Ken
>
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