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TextWrangler is a free, general purpose text editor that is very handy tool for developers. We recently made it free for people (in exchange for beer).

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

Version 2.3 release notes.

BBEdit (votes: 11 )
MacVim (votes: 10 )
AlphaX (votes: 10 )
TextMate (votes: 7 )

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FOLLEREC Great editor as always. Was the only editor that didn't choke on a 16mb .sql script I had... although that was probably because TextWrangler didn't automatically use syntax highlighting on it.

Overall, easy to use, generally quick and light on the resources, and just plain great.

Wishes to give this a 5-star rating:

1. Directly edit files in the Disk Browser view... right now I can read the files, but have to double-click (or press Enter) just to edit the document in a new window.

2. Tabbed-document interface... the drawer is getting old and useless.

3. Code Folding... although I'm sure Barebones wouldn't want that in a giveaway.

Otherwise, still a great editor. TextMate may be getting all the buzz, but when money's tight, or you just can't justify ~$65 for editing text, this is the way to go.
(Version 2.2.1)

DOM21 First time trying this and I'm puzzled. Why does only the current line I'm typing show and the lines preceding keep disappearing?? I've been all through the preferences and don't see how to disable this 'feature.'
(Version 2.2.1)

CASTELLAN The interface in 2.2.1 is vastly simpler than in 2.1.3. Unfortunately, this is a drawback and not a feature. It may not be Universal, but 2.1.3 is still the best version of Textwrangler to use (and at the time of this writing, it's still available on the BareBones site).
(Version 2.2.1)

M!K3 I'll make it short: excellent tool!

Is it also available for Linux?
(Version 2.2.1)

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Aug 2 2007

IGAUCHO Nope. Bare Bones is all Mac!
(Version 2.2.1)

M.U. MOORE What a great tool - "I can't believe it's free!"

My first choice for editing plain text files and HTML pages.

And it has a very modern look & feel, but without being cluttered with useless metal windows, animations and other redundant stuff like that.

Very cool feature: vertical/column select mode!
(Version 2.2.1)

STONETOWNMIKE This version of TextWrangler requires OS X 10.4 NOT 10.3.5 as advertised.
(Version 2.2)

ALBION "Version 2.2 has major GUI changes in the navigation of its text editing capabilities, including a simplified tool bar. It can also open up Gzip (.gz) files. And like BBEdit, it adds Java support for TeX and JavaScript languages."

Yes, but... has it stopped constantly crashing, and does the SFTP support actually work now?
(Version 2.2)

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Jan 9 2007

KINABREW I've found TextWrangler to be a very stable program, and can't remember the last time it crashed on my system.
(Version 2.2)

Jan 9 2007

GRANTNEUFELD I've found it to be very stable and reliable, too. The only problems I can recall running into involved trying to do massive batch file comparisons across remote volumes mounted over Apple's built-in filesharing.
(Version 2.2)

Feb 16 2007

BACINFO TextWrangler is an excellent and essential application, but it most certainly does crash. When you use it for several hours a day you will eventually come across the Nav. Services open file dialogue.

I have reported this to the Developers and they say it is due to a bug in OS X and there's nothing Barebones can do to fix it.

The bug has been specifically reported to Apple with TW crash reports, but has not been fixed since the last two updates of OS X. to OS X 10.4.8.

Doubtless it will also ship with Leopard.

The exact same bug also plagues BBedit.

(Version 2.2.1)

Feb 16 2007

BACINFO For you ADC members, the Nav Services bug report is detailed here:

https://bugreport.apple.com/

See Bug ID 4695712
(Version 2.2.1)

TOMEM I just noticed it DOES support SFTP! WOW! Outstanding. What a great tool....
(Version 2.1.3)

ORION MK. V At 2.1.3, it's still the king baby. ;-)
(Version 2.1.3)

ORION MK. V King of the freeware text/code editors for features, interface, etc. There are many great editors out there, but none quite as multi-purpose as TW and it's FREE. Thanks BareBones.
(Version 2.1.2)