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.

Maybe I will try Komodo edit. Advantage: cross platform.

I have a hearts-and-flowers kind of crush on Sublime Text 2 [link] -- it's not free, but it's sorta like free, in that there are no limitations (including time limits) on the trial version; I used it for months until I decided I just gosh-darn like it so much I wanted to pay.

All 3 platforms, one license for all your machines, tons of searching power, nice code highlighting/folding/completion, add-ons (nearly all actually free) available for whatever I've thought to throw at it. It just possibly might have violet eyes and a lovely singing voice.

Sublime looks pretty sweet.

LeN, I have coding requirements, but not front and centre core of my job large project like things. So the idea of investing that much money for one...not likely. But robust search and replace is important, and syntax highlighting is highly appreciated. Spell check is gravy.

And, on the flip side (though maybe I should work out another solution) I would like to have something to just make temporary notes with. One of those sites I was browsing for text editors mentioned something that seemed good...aha.. Yojimbo by the TextWrangler/BBEdit people. But...for something that complex, I'd probably end up back in Evernote--it just seems oddly wasteful sometimes to fire Evernote up for notes I don't need to keep, but just stuff I'm accumulating for this browsing period.

However, me and Evernote are going steady. Good god, between that and Astrid, I can almost fake being a grownup. I really like that application--that's one of the ones I bought because I thought they deserved my money, if you know the urge (amych seems to be having similar feels for Sublime).

What are the invisible files that show up when I save from the Mac to the NAS? For every angelina_jolie_02.jpg, there's also a ._angelina_jolie_02.jpg? And they're not small either--They're about the same size as the image file.

When I see them, I delete them. I'm assuming this won't break anything...but if it doesn't break anything, why are they there?