Great though these editors are, they do have a few drawbacks. In order to allow people to enter richly-formatted text and images, many sites use WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) HTML editors. TextWrangler – a free, but powerful, plain text editor that has syntax support for HTML.These days, many websites allow you to enter your own content - whether it’s creating a Web page, writing a blog post, or posting in a forum.BlueGriffon – a free, but powerful, WYSIWYG content editor powered by Gecko, the rendering engine of Firefox.Īlso includes a powerful RegEx (Grep) find and replace tool.It has very powerful and easy-to-use table design/layout/editing, and WYSIWYG setting of CSS and form element properties. Wiki editors: please add HTML editors you have found that work well.īeside BBEdit, I also use Atom, Brackets, and Visual Studio Code.I usually use different editors for different projects, so that when I open a certain editor, it opens that project by default. I don't have to switch between different projects. ![]() Atom is linked with the Github server to sync a html website hosted there.Brackets is linked with a ftp server to sync some coded files there.VSC is mainly used for the Custom HTML Prompt files which are stored locally, and.BBEdit is used for a string translation project and as a temporary txt file editor (it's fast to launch and it has a separate search window).Vim (freeware) – A Terminal based text editor – very powerful and mature. GNU Emacs (freeware) – A Terminal based text editor – very powerful and mature.Įmacs for Mac v26.3 (freeware) – Emacs with a GUI.Īquamacs 3.5 (freeware) – Emacs with a GUI. (Broken as of 8 23:39 CST on macOS 10.12.6 – dev contacted – supposedly Big Sur ready.) Komodo Edit / IDE (freeware/commercial) – It looks like Komodo Edit (free) has been deprecated in favor of a free tier of Komodo IDE.ĬotEditor (freeware) – A scriptable plain text editor.Įddie – Very lightweight programming editor with MPW-style worksheet. Sublime Text (commercial) – is/was quite popular. I'm concerned to see it hasn't been updated since Oct 2019 though. With a price tag of $80.00 USD I'm not buying a copy any time soon. The demo period would appear to be open-ended, so it might be worth looking at if you have a need. Sublime Text may be downloaded and evaluated for free, however a license must be purchased for continued use. There is currently no enforced time limit for the evaluation. UltraEdit (commercial) Expensive – $80.00 USD / Year subscription. Jedit Ω (commercial) – An excellent, scriptable Rich Text / Plain Text Editor – about $18.00 USD. These are all I can think of off the top of my head. Worth mentioning are Nisus Writer Pro and Nisus Express (commercial) – but they're more of the word-processor variety.The most obvious choice for those looking for a replacement for NotePad on Mac is TextEdit which is the default text editing app for Mac. It’s free with any version of macOS but is very basic and there are other free and paid options out there with a few more advanced features. ![]() TextEdit is the Mac equivalent of NotePad and is free with all versions of macOS. To find it, simply search for TextEdit in Spotlight or CMD click on your desktop and select “TextEdit”. TextEdit is useful mainly as a simple text editing tool but you can even edit HTML in it. To open TextEdit in HTML mode, simply select “Ignore rich text commands in HTML files” from the File Menu.Īlternatively, to open in Plain Text by default just ensure that “Plain Text” is selected from the Format menu. BBEditīBEdit (formerly known as TextWrangler) is a very popular text editing tool and an excellent alternative to Notepad on Mac.īBEdit is an advanced HTML editor although can be used for basic note taking. ![]() It can be used for checking prefs, html or xml files of all types. ![]() There is an advanced version of BBEdit which offers more coding tools although this isn’t free and requires you to purchase a license starting at $49.99. Tincta is a very simple text editor for Mac.
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