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EDITOR NOTES
From the developer's site: "First of all I'd like to thank you for your interest in my applications. But I have now come to a point where I don't have the time to spend on the applications that they deserve so I have decided to not release any more versions for the foreseeable future. Cheers, Peter Borg."
DESCRIPTION
Smultron is a free text editor for Mac OS X Leopard 10.5 which is both easy to use and powerful. It is designed to neither confuse newcomers nor disappoint advanced users. It should work perfectly for a whole variety of needs - like web programming, script editing, making a to do list and so on.
Smultron has all open documents in a list with beautiful Quick Look icons to your left just like e.g. iTunes so you can easily switch between many documents - you can also choose to display them as tabs if you prefer it that way.
It is easy to program with Smultron as it colours the content in different colours depending on what the code does. And you also have many ways to search for words and line numbers to help finding the code you are looking for. You can also split the window in two to display two parts of the same document or to compare two different documents side by side.
You can also preview HTML-files directly in Smultron and save snippets of text and insert them simply with a shortcut. And if you don’t want to be disturbed by other applications or the desktop you can let Smultron cover the whole screen to let you concentrate on your work.
For the more advanced users Smultron can find all those system files that are normally hidden and it has authenticated open and saves for them. Smultron can also use regular expressions and it can run commands and scripts.
For all international users there is full support for all encodings and it is translated into many languages so you can use it in your own native tongue.
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WHAT'S NEW
Version 3.6b1:
  • Should fix most bugs introduced in Snow (and some others as well as being generally faster) but please note that there are no localisations included
REQUIREMENTS
Mac OS X 10.6 or later.
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Developer:Peter Borg
Downloads:86,239
  - Version d/l:4,205
Business:Word Processing
License:Free
Date:12 Sep 2009
Platform:PPC/Intel
RATING
****½
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Sep 13 2009
*****

NATHANCOLLINGS  I am using Smultron for some time now and I am really impressed.

Clearly the best code editor on the market for OS X and it free too.

Only positive things to say actually.

Big thumbs up ! ! ! ! !  
(Version 3.6b1)

praisebury
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Sep 13 2009

RDWILLIAMS  I really wish to thank Peter Borg for preparing an Snow Leopard Update of this great program.

Cheers

rdwilliams  
(Version 3.6b1)

praisebury
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Nov 6 2008

LAUGHINGRAIN  My favourite Mac text editor. It's quick to start up so great for just dropping whatever text file onto, but you still know you've got a great selection of features. (Very much unlike BBEdit, which seems bloated, slow to start up and un Mac-like when you get there.)

Good call Peter dropping Tiger support - Leopard's been out for a year and who really wants the old OS holding the product back. I'd rather you got to spend time making a great app!  
(Version 3.5)

praisebury
+4
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Sep 29 2008

GULLI3344  Crashes on launch for me, sadly.   
(Version 3.5)

praisebury
+1
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Feb 17 2008
*****

ASDFASD  I leave this text editor! Simple and efficient...

But I think its time to a new update. Code folding and a higher number of snipets would be quite useful.

But for me its still is my favorite text editor and a lot more mac like than BBedit.

Cheers  
(Version 3.3)

praisebury
+1
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Nov 22 2009

ARCHAEOGEEK  Excellent editor, shame free time lacked because it was a great project (oh well, the source is still there, too), huge kudos to the developer for getting through a Snow Leopard ready update.  
(Version 3.6b1)

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Sep 13 2009

REVCO  It really is that good. It's my first choice when I have to edit code.  
(Version 3.6b1)

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Sep 29 2008

TEKL  I'm missing Highlighting in the Snippets.  
(Version 3.5)

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Sep 10 2008
****.

BROCK SAMSON  Used to be my main editor until I started having to open large files on a network share - very slow and painful. TextWrangler ended up being more than twice as fast at opening the same file (by "opening" I mean bringing up the file and having the ability to scroll through all of the text without hanging).  
(Version 3.5)

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Aug 9 2008
*****

FONIK  Simply THE best GUI text editor on the Mac platform. It may not have awesome hotkey support like Vim, but the simple interface and easy set up make it my weapon of choice for Mac text hacking.  
(Version 3.5)

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