[ale] Linux-like gui text editor for MacOS?

Scott M. Jones eff at dragoncon.org
Fri Mar 6 12:10:41 EST 2015


On 3/6/15 12:04 PM, Beddingfield, Allen wrote:
> Any recommendations on a good gui text editor similar to gedit on MacOS (preferably with tabs like gedit)? The “TextEdit” that ships with the OS seems to maintain formatting (who thought it was a good idea to match the terminal background color when pasting from a terminal into the text editor?!) - and I want plain text only.  I usually open vim in a terminal window, paste into there, then paste back, but I know there is probably a better option.
> 
> Ideas, anyone?
> Allen B.

TextEdit has a plain text mode.  Format->Make Plain Text

I use Coda 2 but it's not free.  It has icons across the top in lieu of
tabs.

Sublime Text is very popular.  It's shareware and "dark themed".

-Scott



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