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If BBEdit is a time-honored king among text editors, then TextWrangler is a worthy prince -- always a short step behind BBEdit in features, but also always (amazingly) free. If you're looking for a word processor (i.e., something to create pretty or specially formatted documents), look elsewhere. But if you need to edit, search, and transform text and HTML, TextWrangler is a well-oiled and efficiently designed machine.
TextWrangler 4 catches this app up with Mac OS X Lion with an updated interface and preferences, as well as features like full-screen mode. This update also brings in many of the cool new features of BBEdit 10, such as the iTunes-like document bar and more options for syntax coloring. (Note that TextWrangler 4 will only run on OS X 10.6 and later.) We get the more-robust search capabilities of recent versions of BBEdit, too, and you can even search inside compressed files.
As always, TextWrangler comes packed with tons of developer-specific tools across multiple programming languages, and developers will love the ability to make easy (and now even more streamlined) use of scripts (Automator, AppleScripts, and Unix), differencing and merging, text folding, and regex-based replacing. In fact, devs may love TextWrangler so much, they just might end up springing for the full package of BBEdit, with its more-advanced features and authoring capabilities. For everyone else, TextWrangler remains a powerful tool and a terrific value.
Publisher's Description
From Bare Bones Software:
TextWrangler is a powerful and richly-featured tool for composing, modifying, and transforming text stored in plain-text files.
TextWrangler is a...
- General Purpose Text Editor
- Programmer's Text Editor
- Unix And Server Administrator's Tool
- Powerful Text Transformer And Manipulator
- Product Developed In The Best Traditions Of Bare Bones Software
What's new in this version:
- This release consists entirely of fixes for reported issues, and contains no new features, nor changes to existing features.
- Quoted some parts of PCRE error messages to make them a little easier to read.
- Fixed autorelease memory leaks while doing Process Lines Containing and some related text transforms.
- Added preference search metadata for the "Open documents into the front window when possible" setting.
- Fixed bug in which the Text Encoding popup... See all new features
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All versions:
3.5 starsout of 19 votes
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"very nice text editor"
Version: TextWrangler 4.0
Pros
Works great for C programming, HTML or any other types of text.
Cons
None that I can think of for now.
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"Excellent text editor"
Version: TextWrangler 3.5.3
Pros
This an awesome general purpose text editor that is very easy to use. It's lightweight, flexible, and is a great editor for programmers or anyone who needs to work with text files.
Cons
I wish this text editor had a wider selection of supported languages, particularly when it comes to color highlighting.
Summary
TextWrangler is a good free alternative to the more expensive BBEdit. Almost every common task for a programmer is readily available in TextWrangler. It has sftp, diffs, make/build, symbol browsing, syntax highlighting, modular expansion, scripting environment, etc. It works especially well with XML and HTML. I only wish that it had more support for languages like Actionscript 3.0. Other than that, this text editor is really swell!
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"How would I know? - It will not run."
Version: TextWrangler 3.5.3
Pros
It was free.
Cons
I still want my money back. This does not even run on PPC OSX 10.4 like it states. When you run it says I need 10.5
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"Does more than I need it to but everything I need."
Version: TextWrangler 3.5.3
Pros
I can ftp my html code directly to my website so I can instantly see the changes.
Cons
I am sure there are some but I have not found them.
Summary
It is a good addition to your arsenal.
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"Wrong version"
Version: TextWrangler 3.5.3
Pros
here is 10 characters
Cons
and here is another 10. 71 in fact (it includes spaces for OCD types) .
Summary
Says this version works on Tiger/PPC... downloaded it... It actually requires 10.5 or later. Waste of time/bandwidth.
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"Total Crap"
Version: TextWrangler 3.5.3
Pros
It's free, which is probably why it's garbage.
Cons
No auto indentation, no way to save your font preference, line numbers inserted directly into your code (yes, it's THAT retarded)... no useful features, only total crap.
Summary
This piece of **** will replace your spaces with tabs, it determines what to shrink & collapse but won't let you specify your own selections, can't even remember your font preferences for files, has no auto-indentation, does not automatically enter the selection into the search criteria, adds line number INTO the code (that has got to be THE most idiotic feature in any editor in history). I don't know what retards created this but they should be cleaning toilets for the rest of their days.
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"Great product - still testing"
Version: TextWrangler 3.5.3
Pros
Still testing
Cons
Still testing
Summary
Looks like I'll be using this frm now.
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"Wonderful at cleaning up text; removing carr.returns"
Version: TextWrangler 3.5
Pros
Does lots more than I need. Don't use many of the features.
Cons
None right now; don't use many of the features.
Summary
Does a great job and its free.
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"DOES NOT WORK ON 10.4"
Version: TextWrangler 3.5
Pros
A wonderful utility/text editing app.
Cons
The info above is incorrect.
TextWrangler 3.5 REQUIRES OS X 10.5+
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"Extremely versatile"
Version: TextWrangler 3.5
Pros
No muss, no fuss, just clean editing.
Cons
none i can think of.
Summary
Great product to use.
