Publisher's Description
From Trans-Tex Software:
Tex-Edit Plus is a scriptable, styled text editor that fills the gap between Apple's bare-bones SimpleText and a full-featured word processor. It's fast, efficient, and has a clean, uncluttered interface. It's also great for cleaning up text which is transmitted over the Internet.
What's new in this version:
- Fixed automatic version checking bug.
- Fixed ASCII popup menu redraw bug.
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"My favorite text editor"
Version: Tex-Edit Plus 4.9.9
Pros
I have been using Tex-edit Plus for many years. I am editor of a Mac user group newsletter and it has been absolutely wonderful at cleaning up text in articles other members have sent to me to use in the newsletter. I have also used it to clean up text I get off the internet and want to save in documents for one reason or another. I can instantly transform a messed up text document into something that looks good with just a keyboard shortcut. If necessary, I can replace occurrences of text that isn't right with something that is right.
I was really bummed out when I started using Mac OSX Lion because my copy of Tex-edit Plus no longer worked in Lion. I hunted for another application that could do that job and the closest I could find was TextSoap, but I have to say Tex-edit Plus blows TextSoap out of the water. I only accidentally discovered that Tex-edit Plus has finally been updated to work in Lion and I am so grateful to the author.Cons
There are no cons unless you count the long time it took to get this updated copy.
Summary
I actually prefer to use this application as my word processor rather than Word or Pages. Since I also use InDesign, if I need a fancier formatted document, I can import text from Tex-edit Plus into InDesign.
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"Ditto, ditto, ditto!"
Version: Tex-Edit Plus 4.9.9
Pros
Ditto, ditto, ditto! All of the comments by zunipus. Can't speak more highly of Tex-Edit. Glad to see that Tom has finally had the time to update to an Intel v.
Cons
NONE!! Can't say enough good about Tex-Edit.
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"Powerful minimalist text editor."
Version: Tex-Edit Plus 4.9.9
Pros
Small, fast, powerful, intuitive, no clutter, simple and sane. The best of the minimalist text editors. Support of RTF documents. A Universal binary, running natively on both Intel and PPC platforms. Excellent text-to-speech features. Fully scriptable including support for Automator. Total control over UNIX and DOS formatted text. Inexpensive.
Cons
There are no cons.
Summary
It has been my pleasure to own and use Tex-Edit and its descendants from ages past through today.
While using Mac OS X 10.6, I was a bit displeased with problems in version 4.9.8 and thoroughly dismayed that it no longer worked in Mac OS X 10.7 Lion. But now:
Tom Bender, the developer, has thankfully put hard work into version 4.9.9 such that it is again my favorite and most used text editor. It is actually a relief to be able to use Tex-Edit Plus X after contending with the multitude of alternatives. It is intuitive, powerful and just works, all without clutter and crud getting in the way.
I write just about everything in Tex-Edit Plus X, then toss the text into a more powerful manager or page layout program for my finished product. I wouldn't do it any other way. When I write I just want to write without any distractions from my text editor.
Then consider the terrific raft of features in Tex-Edit Plus X that reside under the hood. It is THE BEST text-to-speech reader available, bar none. It allows integration of audio, graphic and video into your files. It is the boss of UNIX and DOS formatted text, allowing you to do anything you wish with it. It lets you see an manipulate all your text formatting. It is thoroughly scriptable, including working with Automator. It has a WYSIWYG font list. It allows full font styling, text and page coloring, markup, hilite coloring, justification, indenting, GREP, find and replace, sorting, line numbering, character and word counts, auto-save, automatic character smartening, page numbering, margins, ruler control, soft wrap and RTF (rich text formatting). Did I miss anything?
Get it, love it. There are no 'nags' to buy it. But it's only $15. I own multiple licenses just to thank Tom Bender for keeping it alive, well and excellent. -
"Needs to be updated"
Version: Tex-Edit Plus 4.9.8
Summary
This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.
Tex-Edit has been a long favorite of mine but it is being rapidly being taken over by programs that have been updated. Bean which is Cocoa native, open source, free. and able to handle formats Tex-Edit goes 'Huh?' regarding has started replacing this program.
As for Tom Bender writing Tex-Edit in Pascal that should be no barrier to Intel native code as it appears FreePascel 2.2.2+Xtools 2.x and GNU Pascal 3.4.5u2+Xtools 3.x can both produce Intel native code. -
"Supported, brilliant program, but sadly not Intel..."
Version: Tex-Edit Plus 4.9.8
Summary
...coded
This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.
Sorry Zoom Addict, but Tex-Edit Plus is very much supported. I've personally been in touch with Tom Bender, the developer, a number of times. His website is still on the net:
http://www.tex-edit.com/
The problem is with VersionTracker who messed up their URL forwarding for the Developer Site. I have notified them of this problem (among others, sigh).
The one fault with Tex-Edit Plus is that Tom writes it in Pascal. To compile it to run on Mac OS X he uses a 3rd party tool that unfortunately has no clue how to compile for Intel CPUs. Therefore, the app has to run in Rosetta. Bleh. This means that when Tex-Edit Plus boots you might as well go take a leak. I've chatted with Tom Bender about this and at this point he defends its boot time as not detrimental. Oh well.
In any case, once the program is booted it runs brilliantly as ever. This is a 5 STAR program deluxe, even to this day. I love it! It is my default text program, just as it was 10 year ago. Despite the snoozy Rosetta boot up, it does everything I want for general text purposes. I often freak people when I tell them that I never, ever use any of the snazzy schmantzy text editors, like Word (puke puke) etc. Instead I enjoy writing up my text in Tex-Edit Plus then bringing it into a page layout program. I used to use PageMaker. These days I use Pages from Apple's iWork (which is indeed a nice basic page layout program, among other things).
Tom Bender has added to and smoothed out this program beautifully for many years. It hasn't been updated in about a year and a half at this point, but so what! It doesn't need anything more (besides compiling for Intel, nag nag nag).
Read up on its abilities at Tom's website. Check out the pile of scripts you can add on to it. Check out the Automator support. Check out the contextual menu. Check out the simple conversion among DOS, UNIX and Mac text formats. Check out the ability to merge sound, graphics and movies into a document. Check out the dead cheap price for this thing! I've paid for it 3 (THREE) times over these many years just to thank Tom for keeping it up to date and terrific. Grep, Tex-Aid, Droplets, Text-To-Speech that includes voice modulation, WYSIWYG font selection, ruler, mark up, word count, line numbering, tool bar, script tools, more stuff than I ever need or use. Bravo Tom!
And if you don't pay up, there's NO NAG! Just use it for free. Feel guilty, but just use it.
(Hint: When you pay your shareware fee, coax Tom some more to go Intel! Couldn't hurt). -
"A \"Top Ten of All Time\" app"
Version: Tex-Edit Plus 4.9.7
Summary
This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.
If you consider all the elements that go into making an app stellar, TEP has them all, e.g. reliability, rapid and meaningful updates, usability, great interface, massively useful, small CPU footprint and so forth. I have never, in well over six years of using TEP, lost a file. A while back, I thought I had experienced my first problem with TEP and the author immediately straightened me out with a friendly e-mail - it was not a problem with TEP, but my usage thereof. I, too, have paid more than once and will likely send in another donation because this author truly serves the entire Mac community in the "old school" sense of what shareware should be all about. -
"Even more impressive"
Version: Tex-Edit Plus 4.9.7b17
Summary
This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.
It keeps improving. I'm almost ready to pay for it for the third time just to keep Tom working. I want to see it get to version 5. This is truly a work of love and art. Mr. Bender is one of the best developers around and has been for a long time. You can use Tex-Edit Plus for free but please consider rewarding him. -
"The Most Useful App you'll Ever Own."
Version: Tex-Edit Plus 4.9.7b10
Summary
This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.
This is simply the most useful reliable App I've ever owned. It has all of the depth and most of the features of advanced pure text editors, but with the ability to format the text, and include images (The best of both worlds) The amazing part is that it does this all in a format that can be pasted or placed in any other program.
It's virtually the only App I've owned that made All the awkward System transitions with total Grace (even simple stuff like Apple's Simple Text toTextEdit had issues) NOT SO with Tex-Edit Plus. For this reason I've learnt to keep a copy of my most important data in TEP.
Tom's support should put the Giants to shame. Bugs (rarely significant) are fixed so promptly, new features added so often - you needn't bother with every upgrade.
Icing on the cake: His Applescript dictionary along with ease of use has made this my primary choice for text munging. If you don't know Applescript this is the App to use to learn it. Even if you don't care to learn it, you can use the plethora of scripts included with the program, or downloadable.
This is the First program I install on new Computers - I simply wouldn't be without it - If you've got any info you don't want to loose EVER - you shouldn't be either.
No Exaggeration,
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"Still love it!"
Version: Tex-Edit Plus 4.9.7b6
Summary
This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.
I've used Tex-Edit Plus for so many years. I still love it! But there could be some improvements in the user interface, especially the old-fashioned toolbar, which is ugly and really outdated. Please don't improve just only the functionality. Make a better interface!!! -
"Workbook no longer works (Startup/Shutdown scritps)..."
Version: Tex-Edit Plus 4.9.4b6
Summary
...:-(
This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.
Instead I get a Save File dialog upon quitting. It doesn't matter if I do in fact save it somewhere the first time (thinking maybe I have to do it just once at the beginning now). I still get it every time :-( This Workbook feature used to work perfectly in the previous version I was trying out. But not now. It's annoying as I'd come to reply on a scratchpad for my thought that I didn't have to bother saving manually.
This and actual changing of files just to view them without garbage characters (e.g. line ending conversion), is very frustrating. I'd _like_ to use Tex-Edit to _view_ text files, but always being presented with Save File dialogs I then have to cancel out of, is a big waste of my time. I DON'T want to save anything to a readme, or other documentation file.
It's a pity, as despite the flaws in Tex-Edit I'd like to have made it my main plain text and RTF editor. Now I'm looking at buying Nisus Express for rich text editing and keeping Text Wrangler around for plain text. Not as simple a solution as a better, working Tex-Edit may have provided me, but what else can I do? :-(
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