Ask HN: What's your favorite text editor on Mac and why
4•johnnykree•16h ago
I'm looking for a good text editor. I'm not a dev, I'm a language teacher but do some basic python stuff and I like plain text editors more than blown up word processors.
Stuff I do: I made a word and sentence scrambler in Python, I write sentences into a text file and a Python script scrambles them.
Stuff like this.
I tried Sublime text and it's beautiful but I don't want to pay 100$ for something I don't use professionally. I also tried Neovim and while I like it I don't get the hang of it...
I'm too unexperienced to make it do what I want.
Thanks for any sugguestions in advance.
Comments
scblock•15h ago
Here are my personal choices and what I use on my Mac:
Paid: BBEdit
Free: Kate, after jumping through Apple's ridiculous "unknown developer" nonsense to approve it to run.
solardev•5h ago
What about VSCode? It is free and has more features than a text editor, but it is still simple and fast enough to act as one.
scblock•15h ago
Paid: BBEdit
Free: Kate, after jumping through Apple's ridiculous "unknown developer" nonsense to approve it to run.