02-15-2010
Recently I have been writing PHP code on my Mac (OSX).
I really like this free editor,
TextWrangler. Highly recommended for OSX users. One of my favorite features is the ability to open and save files on remote servers. Because of this feature, the editor doubles as a Linux/Unix system admin tool
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TextWrangler Features
TextWrangler is a powerful and richly featured tool for composing, modifying, and transforming text stored in plain-text files.
Text Editing and Manipulating
- Powerful single and multi-file search & replace
- Flexible ‘grep’ style pattern-based search and replace based on PCRE (Perl-Compatible Regular Expression)
- Sort Lines and Process Duplicate Lines plug-ins offer grep pattern support for sorting, extracting, and handling text
- Find Differences to compare two versions of a text file and merge the differences
- Support for a wide variety of BBEdit plug-ins
- Support for rectangular text selections
- Built-in text transformations: Zap Gremlins, Change Case, Entab/Detab, and more
- Open and save files in a variety of character sets, including Unicode (UTF-8 and UTF-16) files
- Supports editing of multi-byte and Unicode text
- Quick Search window
- Perform incremental searches
- Open and save files in Mac, Unix, DOS, and Unicode line-ending formats
- Integrated support for Mac OS X’s spelling service
- Hard or soft wrap text however you prefer
- Quoted text rewrapper
- Multiple Undo
- Multiple Clipboards
- Splittable editing windows
- Auto-Indent
Programming- Syntax coloring and function navigation for ANSI C, C++, Fortran, Java, Object Pascal, Objective-C, Perl, Python, Rez, Ruby, Tcl, TeX, and Unix shell scripts
- Automatic language guessing and User selectable per/document language setting for supported languages
- Integration with Mac OS X developer help
- Ability to function as an integrated external editor with Xcode
- OS Platform Integration
- Comprehensive AppleScript support: scriptable, recordable, and attachable
- Ability to integrate TextWrangler with Unix tools and scripts, by means of the “edit” command-line tool
- Authenticated saves (you can modify files not owned by you, provided that you are an administrative user)
- Support for Quartz text smoothing
- Support for Mac OS X Services
- QuickTime translation support
- Automatic backup of files when saving (optional)
- Optional Emacs keybinding support
Other Useful Features- Extensive FTP/SFTP support open and save text files located on remote FTP servers
- FTP tool supports Mac OS Keychain and use of alternate ports
- FTP Browsers provide persistent view of remote site directories
- Integrated support for FTP access through Interarchy and many other third-party FTP clients
- FTP server discovery using Bonjour
- Support for a wide variety of BBEdit plug-ins & the ability to develop your own plug-ins
- Configurable key assignments – set keys for commands
- Disk browsers – view directory listings and open files
- Floating window list
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