ReText Alternatives for Mac OS X

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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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TextMate

Commercial by MacroMates |
Mac

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TextMate brings Apples approach to operating systems into the world of text editors. By bridging UNIX underpinnings and GUI, TextMate cherry-picks the best of both worlds to the benefit of expert scripters and...

Development text-editor, code-editor, plugins, extendable, bundle
+2 more syntax-highlight, plugins-management
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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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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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Smultron

Commercial by Peter Borg |
Mac

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Smultron is a text editor for Mac OS X Leopard 10.5 which is both easy to use and powerful. It is designed to neither confuse newcomers nor disappoint advanced users. It should work perfectly for a whole...

Development text-editor, html, css, html-editor, htm
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Espresso

Commercial by MacRabbit |
Mac

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Espresso is a powerful text editor for web developers, from the creators of CSSEdit. Why choose between beauty and power? Between features and speed? With Espresso, you dont have to. Elegant syntax...

Development design, html, ftp, css, syntax, coda
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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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Markdown

Open Source |
Mac, Windows, Linux

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Markdown is a text-to-HTML conversion tool for web writers. Markdown allows you to write using an easy-to-read, easy-to-write plain text format, then convert it to structurally valid XHTML (or HTML). Thus,...

Development, Office & Productivity plugin / add-on, html, perl, doc, markup
+1 more text-formatting
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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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Mou

Free by Chen Luo |
Mac

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Mou, web developers' Markdown editor for Mac OS X. When current available Markdown editors are almost all for general writers, Mou is different: It's for web developers. Syntax highlighting, live...

Development text-editor, markdown, markdown-editor, cjk
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Kod

Open Source |
Mac

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Kod is a programmers' editor for OS X Source available at http://github.com/rsms/kod Goals and features Fully concurrent — loading files, syntax highlighting, etc is distributed across available...

Development text-editor, html-editor, css-editor
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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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Byword

Commercial by Metaclassy, Lda. |
Mac, iPhone, iPad

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The easiest way to write Markdown and rich text on your Mac. Features • Fast • Well designed • Open any plain text file • MultiMarkdown smart editing • Comprehensive keyboard shortcuts • Soothing light...

Office & Productivity dropbox-support, markdown, word-processing, typing
+1 more distraction-free-writing
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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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Marked

Commercial |
Mac

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Marked takes Markdown text–a simple syntax you can learn in minutes–and turns it into beautiful documents for you. It will update a preview as you work (with several high-quality themes to choose from, or...

Development html-editor, markdown, markup, markdown-editor

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