macOS Good programmers editor?

[Mona~Lisa]

I want to do a bit of HTML and JavaScript, and maybe play around with a bit of CSS. I've got Dreamweaver but I want something simpler just to type bits of code in. On my pc I just use Notepad - can anyone recommend something similar for the Mac? Or just a good programmers editor? I'm a student so really I need a free and downloadable one.

Thanks

 

[robbieduncan]

If you really want something like notepad then use TextEdit (in /Applications), just change it to plain text, not rich text.

If you want syntax hightlighting etc the XCode is free, although a bit heavy weight to use as a text editor.

BBEdit gets a lot of good press, but is not free.
TextWrangler is made by the same company as BBEdit, but is free...

 

[DavidLeblond]

I use TextMate. It's not free, but worth every penny!

 

[oldMac]

TextWrangler

TextWrangler is the best, free programming editor that I'm aware of for the Mac. Is fairly fast, extrememly stable, has good find/replace capability, syntax coloring, etc. It also has FTP/SFTP support built-in and a bunch of other stuff I never end up using.

If it has a fault, I kind of miss the built-in file system navigation and tabbed windows of Homesite on my PC.

 

[Haoshiro]

Smultron is also free and good.

 

[iSee]

Again: TextWrangler It's the best free text editor I've ever found

 

[weg]

I want to do a bit of HTML and JavaScript, and maybe play around with a bit of CSS. I've got Dreamweaver but I want something simpler just to type bits of code in. On my pc I just use Notepad - can anyone recommend something similar for the Mac? Or just a good programmers editor? I'm a student so really I need a free and downloadable one.

Thanks

Try Emacs. The new versions have a nice user interface, and it's really a powerful editor that has a lot of great features if you're willing to dig around a bit.

 

[Eraserhead]

for HTML try Taco Html Edit, it is far superior to notepad as it does syntax colouring, html validation and can preview your HTML too.

 

[atari1356]

I use TextMate. It's not free, but worth every penny!

Yeah... if you're at all serious about doing web design/development save your pennies for TextMate. Code snippets and text folding make me happy.