Applications: Smultron
Posted October 12th, 2006 - 7:20 PM by Cujo || Organized in Applications
If you are in need of a text editor and cost is a factor then I recommend the program Smultron. Smultron is a free text editor written in Cocoa by Peter Borg.
On the surface Smultron is a very basic editor but after you open it up and tweak it to fit your needs it can become very powerful. From Smultron’s site:
Some of its features are line numbers, support for syntax colouring for many different languages, functions list, support for text encodings, snippets, a toolbar, a status bar, HTML preview, split window, multi-document find and replace with regular expressions, possibility to show invisible characters, tabs, authenticated open and saves, command-line utility, .Mac synchronisation, full screen editing and running commands from within Smultron.
I currently use Smultron for my web development coding PHP, XHTML and CSS all inside the editor with no problems. If you are looking for a full featured IDE Smultron is not for you but if all you need is an extensible editor Smultron is worth the look.
I haven’t used all of the additional functions of Smultron as of yet so I cannot report on their usefulness.
Visit Smultron’s web site to download as well as view a detailed listing of features.
October 12th, 2006 at 8:00 pm
Hey, it does look great, but you should really checkout Textmate ( http://macromates.com/ )
It’s not Free but the price is right.
The greatest thing about Textmate is the use of bundles. Saves SO MUCH programming time. Worth a look.
Textmate along with Transmit FTP ( http://www.panic.com/transmit/ ) is by far the best software package that i’ve ever used for development.
October 12th, 2006 at 9:01 pm
Thanks for the comment Brad. I was actually planning on purchasing TextMate this weekend as I’m looking at doing some Ruby on Rails development and it seems to be the leading editor of choice in that area.
Currently I’m trying to feature the “free” options so people can try things out, just like I featured Cyberduck earlier and plan on featuing Transmission soon I had the same plan for Smultron and TextMate and possibly some other editors which are available as well.
October 22nd, 2006 at 8:22 pm
textmate = the shit
but as much as i love it, it took my broke college butt 3 months to scrape up the $50 to buy it. best purchase yet though.
November 7th, 2006 at 7:56 pm
I use skEdit, which has served me well for years.
The only thing lacking from skEdit right now is the split screen option, which I’m just crying out for…