Mac OSX text editors

[dmg]

Hi,

I know theres a few mac users on here, what do you use for your programming text editor?

what I'm after is something like Context for windows, not to many bells and whistles just a nice clean text editor with highlighting for php, js, sql, css etc and must have tabs, oh and has to be free as well!

Cheers

Dan

[VR46]

Not a Mac man myself but you tried looking on www.download.com ? just make sure you also put Mac in the seach box

[Valken]

Emacs?

[weresheep]

Hi,

I don't know that editor your using for Windows and I don't imagine VIM is anything like it, but I would really recommend VIM to one and all. Well programmers anyway.

I use the command line version of it GNU/Linux, Windows and Mac OS X and it is simply the best editor out there. It has a really steep learning curve, but once you get used to it, it is superb.

Anyway, your probably looking for something more traditional, I hear BBEdit is pretty good and I think there is a Lite version.

-weresheep

[dmg]

I've tried out a load and havent found anything that really floats me boat just yet, i'd gotten so used to ConText that everthing else just seems weird. VI, VIM etc.. I find thats ok for editing my config files on servers but for coding php i do like the pretty colours, tabs, line numbers, macros etc as they help me from going crosseyed.

have just started using BBEdit now as I need to actually do some work instead of messing about and it seems ok, still no real tabs though but does seem to be the best of the bunch.

[sam3k]

Try this link for a very comprehensive list of OSX text editors: http://www.cocoadev.com/index.pl?TextEditors

My favourite at the moment is the latest beta of TextMate, though JEdit is very good for a free text editor (it is java, so you need a fast-ish mac for it not to suck)