Ask HN: What's your favorite text editor on Mac and why
5•johnnykree•9mo 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•9mo 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•9mo 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.
solardev•9mo ago
PS: You can also just keep using Sublime Text without a license indefinitely. Maybe save $10 a year and if you end up using it for 10 years, then pay them them money lol.
I'm still using an expired v3 license because I can't justify paying $80 for the v4 upgrade... but it still works fine.
scblock•9mo ago
Paid: BBEdit
Free: Kate, after jumping through Apple's ridiculous "unknown developer" nonsense to approve it to run.