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Text editors for the Apple Macintosh, under Mac OS/X
Apple Macintosh Editor Family:
- 0xED - Native OS X hex editor based on the Cocoa framework.
- Alpha - Shareware text editor, using Tcl as an embedded script language
- Arachnophilia - HTML editor in Java. Runs under Mac OS/X, Windows, and any other system with a current JVM
- Bean - Free, open source word processor for OS/X using Cocoa
- BBEdit - The top rated editor for Macintosh systems
- BikeOutliner - A rich text outline editor for macOS
- ByWord - Mac OS/X and iOS full screen text editor for Markdown
- Chocolat - Shareware Mac OS/X text editor based on Cocoa
- Cobweb - Freeware simple HTML editor for the Macintosh
- Coda-Mac - Shareware Mac OS/X web editor
- Conglomerate - Open source Linux and Mac OS/X XML editor
- CopyWrite - Writer's project manager for the Mac.
- CreaText - an HTML text editor with some basic and advanced features.
- CryptoEdit - Inexpensive commercial RTF editor for macOS with AES-256 encryption
- EditRocket - Shareware cross-platform programmer's editor
- EdiTury - Open source text/hex editor for DOS, Haiku, Linux, Mac OS/X, OS/2, Windows
- EditX - Mac OS/X XML editor/debugger
- ElfData - DTD validating XML builder for Mac OS/X
- Emacs - Part of the OS/X distribution
- Espresso - A Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) editor for Macintosh
- FountainPen - Open source writing environment for the Mac
- Fraise - Opens source text editor for Mac OS/X, based on Smultron
- Haxial TextEdit - Freeware Unicode text editor for Windows and Macintosh
- HexEdit Mac - A hexadecimal file editor for the Macintosh
- HyperEdit - an HTML editor for OS/X
- IA Writer - Simple text editor for iOS and Android
- iTeXMac - Integrated TeX environment for Mac OS/X
- jEdit - Text editor in Java. Runs on OS/X, OS/2, Unix, VMS, Windows
- Jers Novel Writer - Shareware word processor for Macintosh aimed at long documents
- Kod - Open source programmer's editor for OS/X
- LedIt - Freeware cross-platform Unicode word processor
- LedLineIt - Freeware cross-platform Unicode text editor
- Leonardo - Freeware C development environment for the Macintosh
- Limetext - Open source clone of Sublime Text
- MacDown - Open source Markdown editor for OS/X, modeled after Mou
- MacVim - Open source port of the Vim editor to the Macintosh
- MacWrite - Commercial word processor bundled with early Macintosh computers
- MarinerWrite - Shareware word processor for Mac OS/X
- MaxIDE - Open source IDE for programming in BlitzMax??
- medit - Freeware text editor that can combine documents as a worksheet
- mi - Freeware Japanese Mac editor, formerly MKKEdit
- Mou - Mac OS/X editor for Markdown aimed at web developers
- Nisus - A Macintosh wordprocessor that doubles as a text editor
- Notae - Shareware note-taker/organizer for Mac OS/X 10.4 or better
- Oxygen - Mac OS/X editor for XML and XSLT
- Pacu - Shareware cross-platform code editor for Linux and OS/X
- Pages - Apple's word processor for the Macintosh
- Pepper - Commercial text editor for Mac OS/X
- QUED/M - Shareware text editor for the Macintosh
- Qute PC - Open source Markdown editor for Linux, Windows and OS/X
- RexEdit - Open source, cross-platfome editor with templates and project management
- ScrIDE - Freeware OS-X based IDE for scripting languages
- Scrivener - A word processor and project management tool for writers
- Silver Editor - Freeware cross-platform Notepad replacement
- SkEdit - Shareware text editor for MacOS?/X, integrates with version control
- Smultron - Cocoa based text editor for OS/X
- Storyist - Shareware Macintosh story development tool for novelists and screenwriters
- SubEthaEdit - Mac OS/X editor with powerful collaboration features
- Tag - Mac OS/X XHTML editor
- TaskPaper - A plain text outline editor for macOS
- TaterEdit - A cross-platform text editor (Windows, Linux, Mac OS X)
- Tex-Edit Plus - Shareware scriptable text editor for the Macintosh
- TextForge - Text editor for Mac OS X, written using the Cocoa API
- Textastic - Text editor for iPad, iPhone, and Macintosh
- TextWrangler - TextWrangler 2 is the powerful general purpose text editor, and Unix and server administrator's tool.
- TextMate - Shareware text editor
- Tincta - Freeware text editor
- UltraEdit - Powerful commercial programmer's editor for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X platforms
- ViMate - vi emulation for TextMate
- VI - Part of the OS/X distribution
- WordCraft - Commercial rich text editor for MacOS?, available from the Mac App Store
- WriteRoom - Full screen text editor
- XCode -Apple's programmer's IDE for Mac OS/X
- XedPlus - Open source text editor for X11 from SIAG office package
- XGP - Open source IDE for gprolog under Mac OS/X
- Xmplify - Powerful and elegant XML Editor built specifically for Mac OS X
- Z-Write - Shareware Macintosh word processor for creative writers
- ZuluPad - "Notepad on crack", in open source and shareware versions
(Some editors here run on other platorms as well, because of the implementation language, or because they are included with the Gnu utilities used on Linux, BSD, and OS/X.)