Notepad++ Alternative

Westyfield2 · 16 Jul 2013 at 14:30

So I'm trying to do some web design (CSS/HTML/JS) on my Mac, and have just ended up swearing at it. On my PC I'm perfectly happy using Notepad++ to edit and Filezilla to FTP, but on Mac I'm just not getting on with Dashcode.

What's a good Mac alternative to Notepad++? Some recommended me Coda, but it costs money and is more of an IDE than I need...

JonnyGLC · 16 Jul 2013 at 14:43

Sublime Text 2, thank me later

DELETED_108974 · 16 Jul 2013 at 14:46

I hear good things about Brackets.

Kevin Clark · 16 Jul 2013 at 15:40

I use Komodo
http://www.activestate.com/komodo-edit

slinxy · 16 Jul 2013 at 17:09

textmate as a lot of plugins for programming languages...
http://macromates.com/

Westyfield2 · 16 Jul 2013 at 20:15

Thanks all, will give them a look

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shine · 17 Jul 2013 at 09:28

JonnyGLC said:
Sublime Text 2, thank me later

I use Sublime Text 2 as well, follow this tutorial for some great extensions:

http://tarantsov.com/blog/2012/02/sublime-text-workflow-that-beats-coda-and-espresso/

hawky525 · 17 Jul 2013 at 22:45

Coda is great for web design on a Mac - http://panic.com/coda/

uniQ · 17 Jul 2013 at 23:03

Editor: chocolatapp or Textmate 2 Alpha.

FTP: Forkift 2 or Transmit.

uchuff · 19 Jul 2013 at 21:13

I use Espresso, has FTP/SFTP built in, do check that out too.

http://macrabbit.com/espresso/

Have downloaded Sublime Text several times but never got round to using it, have heard good things though. I found Coda felt a bit heavy.

Fallen god · 19 Jul 2013 at 22:18

Another vote for Sublime Text, its super light weigth, extremely fast, and it just looks good. It doesn't offer indexing like some others I have used but search it quick enough to find methods and the memory you save for not having it is worth it.

Please take the time to watch this video it will change your world in terms of developing.

http://youtu.be/TZ-bgcJ6fQo

artaxerxes · 23 Jul 2013 at 16:16

TextWrangler is the free text edititor from the makers of BBEdit. If notepad++ was enough - it should be more than enough.

http://www.barebones.com/

theheyes · 23 Jul 2013 at 16:24

I quite like textwranger too.

Hyburnate · 23 Jul 2013 at 16:25

Coda.

A.N.Other · 23 Jul 2013 at 16:51

SublimeText is the dogs danglies. Excellent program.

duffers20 · 31 Jul 2013 at 13:07

TextWrangler gets my vote for a free text editor but if I used my mac to do dev work, I'd definitely use Coda. From what I've seen, it looks pretty cool!

Sagalout · 31 Jul 2013 at 14:44

Sublime Text here too

Steedie · 31 Jul 2013 at 21:27

Just downloaded Sublime off the back of this thread, very impressed!

Fallen god · 1 Aug 2013 at 00:13

Steedie said:
Just downloaded Sublime off the back of this thread, very impressed!

Just finished watching this video, it really shows you just how amazing Sublime is, brought my licence too now, devs really deserve it.

http://youtu.be/TZ-bgcJ6fQo

MagicBoy · 1 Aug 2013 at 00:14

TextWrangler here