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TextWrangler
TextWrangler 4.0.1
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(12) 4.75

Free general-purpose text editor.   Free
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    Bare Bones Software
TextWrangler is the powerful general purpose text editor, and Unix and server administrator's tool. Oh, and also, like the best things in life, it's free. TextWrangler is the "little brother" to BBEdit, a leading professional HTML and text editor.

Features include:
  • General Purpose Text Editor
  • Programmer's Text Editor
  • Unix And Server Administrator's Tool
  • Powerful Text Transformer And Manipulator
  • Good Mac OS Citizen
  • Powerfully Useful Tool
  • Product developed in the best traditions of Bare Bones Software, with high
What's New
Version 4.0.1:

Additions & Changes
  • TextWrangler 4.0.1 contains no new features, nor changes to existing features.
Fixes
  • Fixed an internal error that generated lots of console noise when starting a multi-file search.
  • Fixed a bug in which the Multi-File Search window did too much work in situations where documents were being opened (or closed) at high frequency.
  • Fixed bug in which changing the Soft Wrap Text settings (Page Guide/Window Width/Character Width) in per-language preferences would set them to the wrong value.
  • Fixed bug in which password changes (for items already stored in the keychain) were not saved when they should have been.
  • Fixed a bug in which Replace All operations consumed far more memory than was appropriate, which in turn would contribute to prematurely running out of memory while processing a large quantity of files.
  • Fixed bug in which the application didn't accept public.url or public.file-url data types via the Services interface, even though it claimed it did so.
  • Added a few more types to the list of things that TextWrangler recognizes as text documents.
  • Made a change to avoid tickling a bug on 10.6.x which could cause stalls or a crash while saving file references (such as for recent items, and a few other internal uses).
  • Fixed crash which would occur when cancelling a download of the user manual.
  • Fixed a bug in which opening (by pulling down) the Open Recent menu would mount remote volumes or disk images when it was really not necessary. That work is now deferred until you actually choose an item from the menu.
  • Fixed internal exception and subsequent crash which would occur when trying to save a Grep pattern (via the Setup window) with an empty field.
  • Fixed bug in which a now-unused preference from an old version would cause the toolbar to remain visible, even when all of the gating preferences were turned off in the Appearance prefs.
  • Fixed a bug in which file locators (used in projects and other places) would inappropriately carry over a legacy-format alias record.
  • Fixed a bug in which folders in project windows would sometimes refuse to twist open after opening the project.
  • When considering dropped files for insertion, the application will now inspect their contents in cases in which the file metadata doesn't indicate that it's a text file.
  • Fixed bug in which "Replace All" or "Replace to End" would fail in cases where the most recent direct search from the Find window was a "Find Previous", and there were no matches between the start of the selection range and the beginning of the document.
  • Fixed bug in which some TextWrangler preferences were not migrated from previous versions when they should have been.
  • Fixed bug in which New (with Clipboard) incorrectly forced the document's language to(none) and thus interfered with automatic language guessing.
  • Fixed bug in which the esq-q Emacs keybinding brought up the Hard Wrap options sheet, instead of just doing it.
  • Fixed a pair of bugs that conspired to mangle windows located on a display which got disconnected; typically they would end up back on the main display, but at an unusably tiny size.
  • Armorplated the suspected site of a nonreproducible crash.
  • Fixed crash which would occur when decoding AppleDouble files from within Zip archives, and the file was missing an entry for the resource fork.
  • Fixed bug in which using the "Close" contextual menu to save and close multiple documents would result in the documents being neither saved nor closed.
  • Fixed bug in which the file type filter setting was not correctly retained when closing and reopening a project. Along the way, cleaned up some glitches in the file filter menu.
  • Added some missing search keywords for items in the Application preferences.
  • Added comment strings to the Verilog and VHDL language modules.
  • Fixed a crash when starting up with items in our Startup Items folder and DragThing running.
  • Fixed crash which would occur when using a service to open items while DragThing was running (and in a couple of other situations).
Version 4.0.1:

Additions & Changes
  • TextWrangler 4.0.1 contains no new features, nor changes to existing features.
Fixes
  • Fixed an internal error that generated lots of console noise when starting a multi-file search.
  • Fixed a bug in which the Multi-File Search window did too much work in situations where documents were being opened more...
Requirements
Intel, Mac OS X 10.6 or later



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TextWrangler User Discussion (Write a Review)
ver. 4.x:
(12)
Your rating: Now say why...
Overall:
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burypromote

+80

MacUpdate-Warren reviewed on 17 May 2012
If you're looking for a text editor, you can't go wrong with TextWrangler.
[Version 4.0.1]


burypromote

+141

Orion Mk. V reviewed on 17 May 2012
Remains my favorite text editor for formatting, quick code editing, cleaning up odd formatting and simple multi-file search/replace. Oh, and the price is hard to beat.
[Version 4.0.1]


burypromote

+129

Lesoth0 reviewed on 02 May 2012
If you don't want to do the heavy-lifting in DreamWeaver, or just alter some HTML coding then TextWrangler is simply wonderful.

Bares Bones' software has always been the dog's bollocks but this is fabulous.
[Version 4.0]


burypromote

-2

turboyou reviewed on 01 May 2012
Best text editor for any platform, fast, easy and FREEE!!
[Version 4.0]


burypromote

+3

Uniquepito reviewed on 15 Apr 2012
Please implement support of highlighting same words in the opened file.
For example when user select some word, other - same words in the file will be highlighted... then this app will get 5 stars from me! This feature I'm missing so much!
[Version 4.0]


burypromote
+1

+4

Cunamara reviewed on 12 Apr 2012
I like TW and use it for basically two things- HTML and Lilypond files. The UI changes are OK, I'm not really qualified to discuss the under the hood changes except for...

I use TW to edit and compile Lilypond files, but 4.0 breaks those scripts (found here, I don't have the skills to write them: http://users.dimi.uniud.it/~nicola.vitacolonna/home/content/lilypond-textwrangler)


Unfortunately I have no idea why or how to fix it...
[Version 4.0]


burypromote

-21
David_Evian commented on 23 Feb 2012
TextWrangler is great. Have been using this line since BBEdit days. Interesting, last PPC BBEdit was much faster than Universal Binary TW, although I haven't tried this latest one on PPC.

It's a solid and impressive developer's text editor.
[Version 3.5.3]


burypromote

+14

Xente reviewed on 17 Jan 2012
I love this thing. I recently learned the basics of Java and decided to try other languages. With Text Wrangler, I've been able to try Perl, Python, and Shell Scripts--that's all I tried, it's not limited to these-- all in the same place. My only complaint is that when you select "Run in Terminal," it opens Terminal, then you have to Run in Terminal again. At least that's been my experience, not sure if I'm doing something wrong. Oh, and it's free. Simply awesome!
[Version 3.5.3]


burypromote

+7

ModStereo reviewed on 21 Nov 2011
If you need something more than just textedit, then this app is your one stop shop. Use it every day on a huge range of tasks!
[Version 3.5.3]


burypromote

+4

expand reviewed on 14 Aug 2011
I learned HTML on this app, it was much more fun than the usual suspects. Although my usage has been basic, I have to say it is excellent and I recommend it to anyone who wants to write up auction pages or basic web pages. Thank you very much to the developers for making it free.
[Version 3.5.3]


burypromote

+18
Makosuke had trouble on 10 May 2012
After upgrading to TextWrangler 4.0 I'm no longer getting type-specific Finder icons--just generic blank ones (I have preview icons turned off for speed). This is on two separate systems, too.

This was never a problem with previous versions of TextWrangler, and files owned by anything else use the custom icon correctly (including the same files that TextWrangler fails on--switch an HTML doc to Expresso, for example, and it shows the Espresso icon.)

I've gone through the basics for the issue; re-did the "Open with" and applied to all, repaired permissions, rebooted, redownloaded and replaced the application with a fresh copy.

Nobody else is reporting this, but I'm seeing it on two different computers. Is there something obvious I'm missing?
[Version 4.0]

1 Reply

burypromote

+18
Makosuke replied on 16 May 2012
Version 4.0.1 appears to fix this, though it's not mentioned in the list of changes.

+2

Chealion rated on 23 May 2012

[Version 4.0.1]




GarretR rated on 17 May 2012

[Version 4.0.1]




BillyRan rated on 17 May 2012

[Version 4.0.1]



+28

Spectral7 rated on 18 Apr 2012

[Version 4.0]



+31

Shooters rated on 10 Apr 2012

[Version 4.0]



+11

Agent59653198 rated on 10 Apr 2012

[Version 4.0]



+7

chriss-chriss rated on 13 Jan 2012

[Version 3.5.3]



+12

Multimago rated on 30 Nov 2011

[Version 3.5.3]




weftech rated on 23 Nov 2011

[Version 3.5.3]



+5

0815mac rated on 30 Oct 2011

[Version 3.5.3]


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Version Downloads:3,509
Type:Development : Editors
License:Free
Date:16 May 2012
Platform:Intel
Price:Free0.00
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TextWrangler is the powerful general purpose text editor, and Unix and server administrator's tool. Oh, and also, like the best things in life, it's free. TextWrangler is the "little brother" to BBEdit, a leading professional HTML and text editor.

Features include:
  • General Purpose Text Editor
  • Programmer's Text Editor
  • Unix And Server Administrator's Tool
  • Powerful Text Transformer And Manipulator
  • Good Mac OS Citizen
  • Powerfully Useful Tool
  • Product developed in the best traditions of Bare Bones Software, with high performance, ease of use, a rich feature set, and the ability to read its own release notes
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