I recently bought a Mac Mini in hopes of learning to develop for the iphone. I decided to do all my web development work on my new mac for a while, to try and get used to the new OS. On my PC i use notepad++. It has everything I need: built-in ftp, tabbed files, save all open documents, search/replace in all open documents…and it’s free!!! Fine, I can do without built-in ftp, but even after removing that from my required list I still can’t find a decent Mac text editor.
Here’s my rundown:
Coda ($99)
- No save all open documents
- No search/replace in all documents
Textmate ($60)
- no tabs?
- no tabs? really? No I’m not starting a project!
SubEthaEdit ($43)
- No search/replace in all documents
- No save all open documents
BBEdit ($125)
- Drawer is annoying, tabs are much better
- No save all open documents
- No search/replace in all documents
I miss notepad++.