The program’s bread and butter seems to be its HTML tools, offering support for all of the current standards and in-app preview of your markup. I use it for writing Bash and Zsh scripts and editing xml files, among other things. That said, the software is my go-to editor on the Mac, having abandoned TextEdit long ago. While BBEdit has many features catered to programmers, if you’re a hard-core coder there are probably better options out there.
It’s also one of the most popular and for good reason: BBEdit has been around since 1992. Whether it is the ability to run Unix commands to filter out text, multiple document tab support, or HTML preview options, BBEdit is a very diverse text editor for the Mac. But despite its name, BBEdit has quite a few useful features. Speaking of bare bones, the “BB” in BBEdit actually stands for Bare Bones.
Because of these features, TextEdit behaves more like Microsoft’s WordPad than Notepad out of the box, and it saves files in the Rich Text Format (RTF) by default.īut if you want TextEdit to function as a pure text editor more akin to Notepad you can change the software to do just that. The program does have text formatting options–a few typefaces, font sizes, and colors. The software comes pre-installed on the operating system and offers the most basic of functionality with few frills or extra features. If you’re looking for a one-to-one Notepad equivalent on macOS, TextEdit is as close as you’ll get. Find the program in your Applications folder.
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