This editor addresses my need for something simple but 'programmy' - I develop Xamarin Mac apps on OSX and have been frustrated not finding anything I like that is between TextEdit and Xamarin Studio in functionality and useability. Awesome!
CotEditor – Text Editor for OS X
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#32I'm pretty effective with vim, so much that other 'normal' editors like sublime & other modern gui editors make me feel a little crippled. That is a problem, because you need to be flexible about things in life. Has anyone succeeded in deliberately changing editors, even when not feeling like it's necessary? I'm especially curious how I could start using emacs, and actually get up to speed with it instead of using it…
Sublime Text has an excellent plugin called Vintageous that gives you a lot of Vim's functionality with some of the niceties of Sublime, worth a shot if you felt crippled by it.
Sublime comes with the Vintage Mode plugin as well, which emulates Vim.
Re: CotEditor – Text Editor for OS X
#33why are we making another editor.
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#34Not sure why the site advertises "Just for OS X" as if it's a feature.
It is a feature. OSX applications have[1] a[2] certain[3] feel[4] to them. You won't have the same experience using a cross-platform app.
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#35This is awesome, but I wish developers would charge for polished, full-featured software like this. The people who made this probably have full-time jobs; meanwhile, independent developers who want to break into this niche now have to compete with "free". This results in a market ruled by large corporations that can "subsidize" free software via the spare time of their employees.
Maybe I'm just being too grouchy. This editor looks impressive.
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#36Just a first impression: that Find box looks highly out of place within an OSX interface. Are those native yosemite UI controls? If so, that seems like one less reason to upgrade: terribly crowded buttons, for example.
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#37Atom been working just fine.
Big files support yet?
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#39Just a first impression: that Find box looks highly out of place within an OSX interface. Are those native yosemite UI controls? If so, that seems like one less reason to upgrade: terribly crowded buttons, for example.
No they aren't.
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#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
Have you tried using one of those IDEs written in Java?
IntelliJ uses a totally custom widget toolkit that actually looks great. But yeah, NetBeans isn't especially easy on the eyes.
I'm using Netbeans at work now, on a Mac, and the experience has been considerably less than ideal. The UI is almost, but not quite Mac-like (to be fair, when I've used it on Windows, the UI was almost-but-not-quite Windows-like) and I keep running up against things that seem like they should be configurable but are not.
It's like Netbeans was designed by people who had UIs described to them, then semi-randomly decided that was stupid and they could implement them better without doing any research about why those things were the way they were.
It works. It doesn't suck as much as it could. That's about the best I can say about it.
At least it's not Eclipse. So there's that.