
This is the trusted friend you call when you just want to hang with beers, or need to bury a body. Nothing else I’ve used can do that, they just crash. It groans (metaphorically), but doesn’t crash. I’ve edited 10+ gigabyte log files with BBEdit.
#Plain text editor for macbook pro upgrade#
When a paid upgrade comes out, I throw my credit card at them before bothering to read about what’s new. (Daringfireball term for true Mac apps.) This is the original “shut up and take my money” product for me. The rock solid option, longest term “traditional” editor (for folks who don’t want MacVim - ). Did you not actually search for “Mac text editor”?īBEdit: has both free-and-powerful and paid-and-even-more-powerful modes.

Asking here seems like a waste of your time. MacOS has a rich collection of plain text editors, from free-and-open-source to commercial. You can also set the default edit mode in Preference so that every new document you opened in TextEdit.app will be plaintext by default. If you have trouble finding 3rd party Mac apps, bookmark this site: īTW, In case you don't know: Cmd+Shift+T in TextEdit.app (and Mail.app) to switch between RichText mode and PlainText mode. And of course, you can always get VIM and GNU Emacs, though I really can't understand. There are also basic code editor with fundamental features, such as BBEdit, TextMate and CotEdit ( ). The mainstream code editor are IDE-like with mods/plugins to expand functionality, such as Visual Studio Code, Sublime Text, Atom, and enterprise level IntelliJ and P圜harm. As its name implies, it's designed for coding. The second branch is called " plaintext editor" or " code editor".

There are a dozens of markdown editors in App Store, and you really should try Typora ( ). The first branch is called " markdown editor", similar to Reddit's markdown mode. There are two major branches for what you want.
