CotEditor Alternatives for Mac OS X

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Eclipse

Open Source by Eclipse Foundation, Inc. |
Mac, Windows, Linux

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Eclipse is an extensible development platform with runtimes and application frameworks for building, deploying and managing software across the entire software lifecycle. Many people know Eclipse as a Java...

Development php, programming, ide, java, python, perl
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Vim

Open Source by Bram Moolenaar |
Mac, Windows, Linux

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Vim ("Vi IMproved") is an advanced text editor that allows syntax highlighting, word completion and has a huge amount of contributed content. Vim offers several “modes” for editing with...

Development development, programming, text-editor
+3 more developer-tools, code-editor, syntax-highlighting
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Sublime Text

Commercial by Jon Skinner |
Mac, Windows, Linux

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Sublime Text is a sophisticated text editor for code, html and prose - any kind of text file. You'll love the slick user interface and extraordinary features. Sublime Text 2 may be downloaded and...

Development portable, php, text-editor, javascript, html, python
+8 more css, automation, code-editor, html-editor, ruby, distraction-free, no-distraction, syntax-highlight
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gedit

Open Source by The GNOME Project |
Mac, Windows, Linux

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Official text editor of the GNOME desktop environment. Has syntax highlighting and is suitable for programming, with support for several languages. It is extensible with plugins. Currently it features: ...

Development text-editor, gnome
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Geany

Open Source by Enrico Tröger, Frank Lanitz, Nick Trelea... |
Mac, Windows, Linux

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Geany is a small and lightweight Integrated Development Environment. It was developed to provide a small and fast IDE, which has only a few dependencies from other packages. Another goal was to be as...

Development php, text-editor, javascript, html, ide, python, java
+16 more css, sql, xml, ruby, latex, perl, c++, xml-editor, pascal, abc, haskell, assembler, vala, ada, docbook, caml
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GNU Emacs

Open Source by The Free Software Foundation |
Mac, Windows, Linux

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GNU Emacs is an extensible, customizable text editor—and more. At its core is an interpreter for Emacs Lisp, a dialect of the Lisp programming language with extensions to support text editing. The features of...

Development text-editor, html, code-editor, html-editor
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Komodo Edit

Open Source by ActiveState |
Mac, Windows, Linux

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Komodo Edit is a fast, smart, free and open-source code editor. Switching your trusty code editor is hard, but give Komodo Edit (or its big brother Komodo IDE) a try: it'll be worth your while. Windows,...

Development text-editor, code-editor, html-editor, php-editor
+4 more macros, python-editor, javascript-editor, perl-editor
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UltraEdit

Commercial by IDM Computer Solutions |
Mac, Windows, Linux

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UltraEdit is the ideal text, HTML and HEX editor, and an advanced PHP, Perl, Java and JavaScript editor for programmers. An industry-award winner, UltraEdit supports disk-based 64-bit file handling (standard)...

Development text-editor, programming, notepad, code-editor
+1 more hex-editor
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TextWrangler

Free by Bare Bones Software |
Mac

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TextWrangler is the powerful general purpose text editor, and Unix and server administrator’s tool. At its most basic, a text editor is a tool for simply editing text. You can use a text editor for a wide...

Development text-editor, html, ftp, notepad, html-editor, coding
+1 more unicode-support
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GNU nano

Open Source |
Mac, Windows, Linux

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GNU nano is a small and friendly text editor. Besides basic text editing, nano offers many extra features like an interactive search and replace, go to line and column number, auto-indentation, feature...

Development text-editor, syntax-coloring
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jEdit

Open Source |
Mac, Windows, Linux

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jEdit is a mature programmer's text editor with hundreds (counting the time developing plugins) of person-years of development behind it. While jEdit beats many expensive development tools for features and...

Development text-editor, programming, java, notepad, code-editor
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TextEdit

Free by Apple |
Mac

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When you need to create text documents, TextEdit is a highly versatile word processor, including tools to format and layout your page, edit and stylize text, check spelling, create tables and lists, import...

Development text-editor, notepad
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BBEdit

Commercial by Bare Bones Software |
Mac

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BBEdit is the leading professional HTML and text editor for the Macintosh. Specifically crafted in response to the needs of Web authors and software developers, this award-winning product provides an abundance...

Development text-editor, html, html-editor
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MacVim

Open Source by Björn Winckler |
Mac

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MacVim is a port of the text editor Vim to Mac OS X. MacVim supports multiple windows with tabbed editing and a host of other features such as: * bindings to standard OS X keyboard shortcuts (?Z,...

development, programming, source-code, vim
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ReText

Open Source by Mandriver |
Mac, Windows, Linux

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ReText is a simple text editor for Markdown syntax. It is written in Python using Qt libraries, able to run on any platforms (Linux and BSD are officially supported).

Development text-editor, markdown
Skywriter

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This application has been discontinued. No more info was provided.
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Aquamacs Emacs

Open Source by David Reitter |
Mac

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An Editor for Text, HTML, LaTeX, C++, Java, Python, R, Perl, Ruby, PHP, and more... Based on GNU Emacs, Aquamacs integrates perfectly with OS X with many Mac-specific extensions to fit with the Mac user...

Development text-editor, programming, java, code-editor, latex
+3 more html-editor, php-editor, emacs
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Editra

Free* |
Mac, Windows, Linux

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Editra is a multi-platform text editor with an implementation that focuses on creating an easy to use interface and features that aid in code development. Currently it supports syntax highlighting and variety...

Development programming, html, ide, notepad, code-editor
+2 more texteditor, python-editor
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Padre

Open Source by Adam Kennedy |
Mac, Windows, Linux

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Padre is a Perl IDE, an Integrated Development environment, or in other words a text editor that is simple to use for new Perl programmers but also supports large multi-lingual and multi-technology projects.

Development ide, perl
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Vico

Free* by Martin |
Mac

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Vico is a programmers text editor for Mac OS X. Some of the features are: strong focus on keyboard control (vi key bindings), integrated SFTP, compatible with textmate bundles, split views, scriptable in nu ...

Development text-editor, sftp, vi-keybindings, mac-text-editor

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