Comments on: Tabbed Editors for OS X?

By: dw

dw — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 10:02:11 +0000

Does anyone know of a Rexx-friendly Xedit style editor for OS X? Anyone coming from an IBM mainframe will know what I mean.
At the moment I’m using Kedit under Parallels Desktop (running XP), but I know there’s no chance of Kedit being ported – Kent Downs has retired.
THE (The Hessling Editor) in Unix is no good. Too clunky, too painful to install, too many dependancies which are also clunky.

By: A. Boehner

A. Boehner — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 21:48:47 +0000

NVU is a Free and Open Source tabbed text editor with many other features. It can be downloaded from http://www.nvu.com. It is released under the Mozilla Public License. gedit is the best tabbed text editor of all time but the darwinports installation is currently broken and the fink installation is not straightforward. Hopefully they will port it so that it can be installed on the mac more easily. Running Linux under Parallels Desktop on an Intel Mac successfully allows the use of gedit. Hopefully the gnome and kde desktops will be ported to Tiger soon so mac users won’t be stuck with cocoa software- it’s nuts.

By: Ben

Ben — Wed, 22 Feb 2006 19:55:39 +0000

BBedit is a very wonderful editor, very powerful and feature rich. But, it also costs $200. I don’t see that as a reasonable price for a text editor. It does now support multiple files in one window using the file list on a side drawer. It also allows opening and saving of remote files via ftp. But the price…

A reasonable alternative for someone looking for tabs and ftp access might be to use the Smultron editor, which seems simple ans well made, in conjunction with Transmit. Transmit is an ftp app that allows you to open remote files in a local editor. When you use the save command in that local editor, Transmit will save the file to its remote location.

By: Aurelius

Aurelius — Sat, 30 Jul 2005 06:11:49 +0000

You guys will love Textmate. It's the best coder's editor around. Great tabs and directory view.

By: Brendan

Brendan — Mon, 25 Jul 2005 23:05:25 +0000

Thanks for the resource, was looking for a good editor for a long time.

By: David S

David S — Thu, 14 Jul 2005 15:26:34 +0000

Thanks so much for the Smultron recommendation! It it exactly what I am looking for. I can now write php code on my ibook (with syntax highlighting) and then copy it over to my linux server when I'm done. http://smultron.sourceforge.net/

By: anne

anne — Thu, 07 Apr 2005 19:18:55 +0000

thank you for a great page that’s googleable! I like Smultron but now I realize that the “other jedit” the Japanese one, has “tabs” inside one file, which is what I really wanted: http://www.artman21.net/product/JeditX/newfeature_E.html

I’d like a tabbed editor, but I especially need one that’s Word-compatible, and JeditX/Japanese is (Hey, maybe he renamed it because I showed him the other Jedit) (It used to be just Jedit).
Anne M

By: Ruaraidh

Ruaraidh — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Any self respecting Mac user uses bedit You'll enjoy using it as it is by far the best editor for the Mac. For any other app you might be looking for try Version Tracker anything you could possibly is on there.

By: Ruaraidh

Ruaraidh — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

that would be bbedit

By: Alex

Alex — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Yeah, I would use BBEdit, except that it doesn’t have a tabbed interface .