Herd Your Code with TextWrangler
September 1st, 2005 | Filed under Essential Tools
WebMonkey’s published a helpful how-to on my favorite free text editor for Mac OS X, TextWrangler. Even though I’ve been using TextWrangler for some time now, some things mentioned in this article were still news to me:
What TextWrangler delivers isn’t just less with more, it’s less with everything. The interface — menus, toolbars, command keys, document panes, et cetera — is customizable eight ways from Sunday. The language-sensitive syntax highlighting is a gift from heaven, and the integrated scripting (Unix, Apple Script, and so on) is powerful enough to be, quite frankly, way beyond my daily needs. Oh, and SFTP. And regular expression searches, even PCRE. And spell-check that actually ignores code!