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A slightly better clone of the original Electron code editor, Atom. As Microsoft neglectware it’s a dead end. Still, Atom as a Github project was very intriguing. Huge memory requirements to run and for each open file. Atom apparently is at the core of the Electron app revolution (write once in js, CSS and HTML, run inefficiently everywhere). Atom is still maintained but hasn’t had much active development since Microsoft acquired Github as Microsoft already had its own free power editor, VSC. I’m a happy Tranmit user and since Interarchy disappeared into the sunset I recommend it to some clients but buying Transmit or Coda/Nova across our whole agency is basically without discounts and expensive to maintain (2 x $50 updates for Code/Nova) and now $49/year subscription. Coda and Nova look great but don’t bring much new to the party and are another $100 plunge with expensive updates. FTP hall of fame builders of Transmit, Panic has been trying to get an editor app right since 2007. Version control unfortunately is another separate and equally expensive product, Sublime Merge. Say what you want (and I will) about Sublime Text functionality, it’s a financially stable and viable project, scrupulously maintained by its pedantic creators. Claim to fame is its extreme customability.

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Each version has been a paid update and now updates are on an annual plan. Sublime Text (2008-2021 $90 personal three years $65 business one year).Lewis (Keyboard Maestro) sold it off to his protegé at the time Matthew Drayton. Not in MacRabbit’s hands but in the hands of Kangacode who managed to turn the wonderful Anarchie into FTP also-ran as Interarchy (I’m a paid user of v10 and have been for decades, this is personal experience) after the brilliant Peter N. Made this list based on price and CSSEdit inheritance. I trialed Espresso years ago but found it much slower than the extremely responsive BBEdit. Not nearly as quick as BBEdit nor able to handle the huge files. Somehow Espress never quite captured the magic of CSSEdit and its very complete CSS tools. The heir to the brilliant CSSEdit from MacRabbit. There is still an operational version of TextMate but it’s somewhat flaky on Mojave. Huge market, especially when one started to add additional tools. Designers and some coders were sick of looking at ugly old BBEdit.

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Until 2016, BBEdit always looked a bit scrappy on OS X, more like a classic Mac OS application. Much nicer than BBEdit free as TextWrangler doesn’t crowd menus with paid features which doesn’t work. TextWrangler (2003-2016 free): free version of BBEdit.Early claim to fame: HTML preview and built-in HTML markup tools.

BBEdit (1992-2021 was $100, now $50): the original from Bare Bones Software.

The Mac version must appear as a full-fledged Mac application and not require adding a compatibility layer for either Windows or Linux. This first list is not for casual lightweight text editors with syntax highlighting.

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To make this list, an editor must either be free or cost $50 plus and have a dedicated fanbase of evangelists. Or are the best code editors for OS X free in 2021? Github built a powerful free editor called Atom before Microsoft bought Github. It’s cramped but less distracting than the two tier version.īefore I drop another $40 into BareBones’ coffers, I’d like to know what I’m missing out on and if there’s a better code editor in which to invest. Superficially, the two applications look almost identical, along with the menus but two tier title bar has been reduced to a single bar. I don’t much use the Markup menu to write HTML any more as I usually write in Markdown and when I’m not writing Markdown I know my HTML commands well enough to write the tags outright myself. Syntax highlighting, SFTP mode, multifile search, diff all work great for me with Regex lurking in the background as a new temptation. I’m happy with how v11 works and not missing much. As I’m currently running v11.1.4 it’s time to consider upgrading. My long time main code editor BBEdit just updated to version 14.

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