What is your guys' favourite text editor? Actually--OS X and Windows each?

And do you have a favourite screencap and annotation tool for Windows? I love Skitch so freaking much. I have to use a proper graphics app on Windows to get the equivalent markup tools.

For windows I use Notepad++. In some ways it's better than the one in MS Visual Studio.

I especially love how you can select a word and every occurrence of that word is highlighted--very useful in debugging.

I don't have a fave for OS X and I hope I find a good one here.

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I like Notepad++ on windows as well. I used to use Smultron on Macs but I don't think it's under development anymore. I don't have a primary mac anymore but mostly use TextWrangler when I'm on one. It's ugly but powerful in my opinion. If I were still coding with any regularity I'd probably use vim in a terminal window - that was my system in college.

Huh. Lifehacker points me to Fraise as the updated Smultron and, more excitingly, Kod. Looks pretty awesome.

[link] That is the Lifehacker article on coding editors for the Mac. I there are lots of passionate comments that mention dozens of options.

Smultron is what I use on OS X too. It's almost what I want--my complaints are pretty minor, I guess. Being able to search and replace with a little more flexibility--like I could point it at a directory and let it loose--would be nice. I haven't made the leap to work out how its regex works, and how much leeway you have with composing the replacement. But that's because UltraEdit stung me and I'm now twice shy.

But what really REALLY bothers me is that I can't find out how to turn off automatically replacing ... with …, which completely bollixes the text in an HTML file. I went through the preferences again and again, and tried googling, but in the end I had to edit those files in TextEdit, because two dots looks stupid (and is WRONG) and putting 4 didn't make a difference--three of them still got converted and then spat garbage back out when you display the HTML. This *has* to be a me issue, because there's no way that can't be turned off. But I'm blind to where...

UltraEdit is my go to on Windows, enough so I paid for the version I have (10?) but not enough so that I upgraded it, and I can't run (I don't think) the same license on my work laptop--I use Notepad++ there, but really don't like it. I can't decide if that's education or featureset.

Wow. It seems that ~$60 is the price point in that market. That just feels like a really big jump from $0. But development tool. Some people gotta live in that shit.

I'll plonk that down for a graphics tool (luckily I didn't have to--I found a great PS Elements sale), but my text needs don't support it.

I will give the other free options a look--I hadn't even realised that Smultron was DOA.

I haven't tried to find something I like more than Notepad++ out of laziness, and but I certainly don't love it. I feel like I liked something g more back I will high school but that was Windows 98. My current work laptop is my first Windows machine since then so I'm still learning.

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I have tried a bunch of text editors for the Mac. What do you need to do with it? I don't code, I write. And so, Byword is my go to text editor.