Tag: TEXT EDITOR

Mac coders who are frustrated with the lack of updates to beloved text editor TextMate now have a new option to consider: Sublime Text 2. Sublime Text has been around on Windows for some time, and a new late-alpha version makes the jump to Mac and Linux for the first time. There's a lot to like in Sublime Text 2, including compatibility with most of the TextMate themes we've come to rely upon. ...

Version 2.0 of bare-bones text editor WriteMonkey has just been released. This release comes after a lengthy testing period (some of it covered on Download Squad), and adds several news features: Text comments: When working on a manuscript, sometimes you may want to add comments and thoughts that should not be included as part of the final text. Now you can preface a paragraph with // (two ...

Remember Smultron? The no-frills Mac text editor with the distinctive strawberry icon got left behind when Snow Leopard was released, and (as Lifehacker notes) everyone thought it was a goner. Well, fret not, because Fraise is here to pick up where Smultron left off. Same lightweight text-editing abilities, same strawberry-themed icon, same free price. Fraise has the snippets and color-coding ...

Dissociated Press turned me onto It's all text!, a nice Firefox add-on that allows you to edit text on web pages using your text editor of choice. This comes in handy when you want to leave comments or post something in forums and then, say, your browser crashes or you mistakenly press the backspace key outside the text area. We've all been there - all your snark work is erased! The extension ...

If you don't know what Emacs is, this is probably the least exciting news you'll read all week. In fact, if you're not an Emacs user, just skip this article. Also, if you're a hardened-and-bearded Vi user, move along -- but what're the chances of one of the 10 remaining Vi users actually reading Download Squad anyway? Slim to none. They've probably all been cryogenically frozen to await the day ...

Mac users that have been spoiled by text editors like TextMate often find themselves frustrated when moving to a Windows machine. While there are lots of text editors for the Windows platform, it's hard to find one with the clean design sensibilities that TextMate offers. Well, there's a new editor in town, and its name is Sublime Text. I don't mean to equate it too much to TextMate since they are ...

For the longest time, I thought I needed to use Dreamweaver to edit my web code. That bothered me. I didn't like the way it handled saving files to my remote server, and it was just too damn bulky for my taste. And there's the price tag. I wasn't really a fan of that either. Fortunately, I discovered Notepad++. It's totally free, extremely powerful, and does everything I need an editor to do (and ...

DarkCopy is a web-based alternative to programs like WriteRoom and DarkRoom that lets you compose text files in full (or almost full) screen to eliminate distractions like instant messages, Flash games, LOLcats, etc. You can type in a regular browser window, or go full screen to make most of your screen (except for the browser's toolbar) black with greenish text. When you're done writing, you can ...

Looking for a powerful text editor for all your writing and coding needs? Look no further than TotalEdit 4.1, a multi-featured text editing tool created by Independence Software. TotalEdit offers a wealth of programming features, including syntax-coloring, code-folding, line-numbering, and many other hyphenated features. TotalEdit also includes a number of one-click edits, so you can quickly ...

MacVim is a port of the popular open-source text editor Vim for Mac OS X. It supports tabs, full-screen editing, and transparent backgrounds. The toolbar is also helpful as it provides easy access to save files, run vim scripts, make a project, save/load sessions, and undo editing. MacVim also has handy syntax highlighting to make editing/reading text files easier on the eyes. If you need to ...

Panic, the fine folks that bring us Transmit, finally revealed the top secret app they've been developing over the past year with the release of the web development application Coda V1.0. This is not a WYSIWYG, drag-and-drop, do-all application. Coda has a specific target audience that consists of people who edit raw code using multiple tools such as a text editor, FTP client, CSS editor and ...

First there was WriteRoom, which gave Mac users a very simple black interface in which to write. No distractions, just a black screen with glowing green letters, which probably appeals particularly to people that have been working with computers long enough to remember monochromatic terminals. And it was a very cool idea, but there was nothing similar for Windows. Until Dark Room came along. Dark ...