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Best text editor for a mac?

#1 User is offline   Giraffic 

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Posted 03 February 2012 - 10:40 AM

I have always used Notepad++ on my windows laptop but this isn't available on a mac...

Which do you find is the best text editor?

I am currently using Text Wrangler but I'm just not getting on with it - the window size is far too small and I just can't seem to be able to find a way to maximise it.
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Posted 03 February 2012 - 10:43 AM

from what Mac people say, Coda is meant to be good. Although I suspect it may not JUST be a text editor.
http://panic.com/coda/
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Posted 03 February 2012 - 10:46 AM

Agree'd Coda is a brilliant application for coding websites. I'm currently building Rails apps and being able to open terminal windows from within the program is a god send

There's also TextMate which a lot of people recommend but I'm pretty sure you have to buy that one too..
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Posted 03 February 2012 - 10:54 AM

Fab thanks, I'll check those out now :)
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Posted 03 February 2012 - 04:06 PM

I am currently using Espresso and loving it.
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Posted 04 February 2012 - 12:44 PM

+1 for Espresso, it's awesome. Check it here

I would also recommend Sublime Text 2, it's still free and as powerful as textmate. You can use textmate bundles with it too. Check it here
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Posted 09 February 2012 - 09:43 PM

I 100% recommend TextMate, its cheap and really nice to use.
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