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I come from a Windows background and recently switched to Mac at work. I'm a pretty heavy user of Notepad++ but so far all the good text editors I've found for Mac are shareware. What good free text editors do you recommend on Mac that have similar features, like syntax highlighting, auto-indent, and regular expression support?
I come from a Windows background and recently switched to Mac at work. I'm a pretty heavy user of Notepad++ but so far all the good text editors I've found for Mac are shareware. What good free text editors do you recommend on Mac that have similar features, like syntax highlighting, auto-indent, and regular expression support?
Doesn't get better than Sublime Text 2 - cross platform too.
This personal favorite from their About page lives on: "By optimizing as many routines as possible without losing user friendliness, Notepad++ is trying to reduce the world carbon dioxide emissions. When using less CPU power, the PC can throttle down and reduce power consumption, resulting in a greener environment." Gotta love such bold goals from a text editor :)
Notepad++ is one of the fastest and the best editors out there. Products like these show that over a given period of time, people being to notice the subtle differences between the speed of simple things, like the time taken for the context menu to appear, or the drop-down for word completion to appear. This is primarily why my use of IDEs has decreased over time. It just takes a little too long for doing stuff in th…
This personal favorite from their About page lives on: "By optimizing as many routines as possible without losing user friendliness, Notepad++ is trying to reduce the world carbon dioxide emissions. When using less CPU power, the PC can throttle down and reduce power consumption, resulting in a greener environment." Gotta love such bold goals from a text editor :)
Oh, come on, does text editing really use so many cycles that switching to Notepad++'s automations would really enable the CPU to throttle down? I'd think it'd be throttled down already for most text editing environments, if the user has that enabled.
I come from a Windows background and recently switched to Mac at work. I'm a pretty heavy user of Notepad++ but so far all the good text editors I've found for Mac are shareware. What good free text editors do you recommend on Mac that have similar features, like syntax highlighting, auto-indent, and regular expression support?
Just a note to let mark_up and chevas know that they've been hellbanned. I don't think you're trolls, so I thought I'd let you know (I can't respond to your posts directly).
You can make new accounts, but I would suggest getting your current accounts unbanned. A short mail to pg(you can guess the email address) on the lines of "I believe my hn handle http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=mark_up is wrongfully banned" does the trick.
Notepad++ is one of the fastest and the best editors out there. Products like these show that over a given period of time, people being to notice the subtle differences between the speed of simple things, like the time taken for the context menu to appear, or the drop-down for word completion to appear. This is primarily why my use of IDEs has decreased over time. It just takes a little too long for doing stuff in th…
I come from a Windows background and recently switched to Mac at work. I'm a pretty heavy user of Notepad++ but so far all the good text editors I've found for Mac are shareware. What good free text editors do you recommend on Mac that have similar features, like syntax highlighting, auto-indent, and regular expression support?