Crimson Editor equivalent for Mac.

[Johnny Thunder]

Hi everyone.

I have been using the above text editor to alter files on the Joomla websites that I look after.
I've now moved from PC to Mac and I need an equivalent if there is one.
Does anyone have any recommendations?

Thank you.

 

[Musicman]

I've been using Barebones' BBEdit for most of the last 20 years. Context sensitive colouring, multi-file grep search and a built in S/FTP client are amongst its useful features (and having a bit of a UNIX-y bent I also appreciate the ability to use Emacs keybindings, execute shell commands from within the editor and launch it from the Terminal to edit a file). There's rarely a day I don't use it.

They also do the free TextWrangler.

TextMate is also quite popular and offers a similar feature set to BBEdit - it seems to be especially prized by Ruby developers.

edit: there's also vim and Emacs for free in the Terminal if you fancy that. It's well worth getting to know at least the basics of editing with vim for editing across an SSH session when you don't have your usual tools with you. I often do that for quick edits on my web servers.

 

[Johnny Thunder]

Cheers Rob, I will have a look at them.