text editor recommendation

[fleeper]

I am looking for a text editor that has tabs and will allow me to search across multiple tabs and do a find/replace when needed.

Suggestions?

Thanks!

 

[philosoraptor1]

I use Sublime for quick edits. I believe it can apply search and replace to open tabs.

 

[gilby101]

Most editors have find and replace (I use BBEdit, Smultron or TextEdit). But probably not search across all tabs.

 

[bogdanw]

More recommendations in the thread "An Application similar to NOTEPAD++ on Mac" https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/an-application-similar-to-notepad-on-mac.2345965/

 

[fleeper]

Thanks much for the suggestions. I downloaded BBEdit and it does indeed have a very powerful search function that lets the user search across all open docs and find/replace so after using last night it appears to fulfill my needs. Thanks again!

 

[kfury77]

I'd recommend VS Code as a text editor. It's free, feature packed and has many great extensions.

Visual Studio Code - Code Editing. Redefined

Visual Studio Code is a code editor redefined and optimized for building and debugging modern web and cloud applications. Visual Studio Code is free and available on your favorite platform - Linux, macOS, and Windows.

code.visualstudio.com

 

[cyb3rdud3]

I'd got for Visual Studio Code as well. Or Jetbrains Fleet.

 

[Canubis]

BBedit is like *the* text editor on Mac, even the free version is super powerful.
I am not sure about multi-tab-search, but it has a powerful multi-file-search – you basically throw a folder at it (or several) and can search them with numerous options and then view all the findings and edit right there…

Bare Bones Software | BBEdit 15

 

[Basic75]

https://emacsformacosx.com/

 

[Cromulent]

GitHub - macvim-dev/macvim: Vim - the text editor - for macOS

Vim - the text editor - for macOS. Contribute to macvim-dev/macvim development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com