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Atom io vs coda 211/29/2023 Screenshot: BBEdit Section Folding and Syntax Highlighting Screenshot: BBEdit Section Folding and Syntax Highlighting commenting and un-commmenting in a language-sensitive manner.straighten quotes or make quotes “smart”.quick switching between lowercase, title case or upper case.Autocompletion during editing, to allow you to type the beginning of an often-used code fragment, having it automatically replaced by the full expression.Control display of the file with a split-screen view or text “folding”, making it easier to jump back and forth and see what you’re doing, especially in a large file.Organize your files and folders in “projects”, and display multiple open files in tabs, whether vertically- or horizontally-oriented.Search and replace in a file or folder of files, on some text string, or using regular expressions.Replace tab characters with spaces, which is useful when the project you’re working on requires that.Display line numbers, and wrap each line at a certain number of spaces, in addition to giving feedback about file stats like number of words, line, characters and so on.Control which line endings are used in a file, such as.Save text files in a specific encoding, such as.Text editors almost always feature certain common aspects that you’ll observe in one form or another, such as these: , there’s a wide range of stuff available in the Terminal, which you can install via homebrew. , you usually have a default in the GUI, and various ones in the Terminal such as ed, vi, vim, emacs or nano. Try it out if you have a chance, and muse upon how hard core it was to build so much software using just this tool. The ed editor is probably the prototypical editor, since it was used to build much of the software unix is based on to begin with. In the case of Mac, it’s “Text Edit” in the GUI (which ironically defaults to saving rich text) and ed or vi in the Terminal. You’ll probably find this out anyway, but Mac, Windows and * those who need to edit text-based markdown content files.those who want to edit in text, a future-proof format ( c.f.those who have been told to find and use one.those just getting started in coding and programming.You might be looking for a text editor if you’re in the following categories: If your editor application allows you to set formatting on text, as you can do with an app like MS Word, Apple Pages or Mellel, it’s not a text editor specifically, but rather what might be termed a “word processor”. What’s a Text Editor?Ī text editor is an application used for editing text files, having no function for adding visual formatting such as bold or italics, to the edited text. Have you just become aware of text editors and are starting to understand why you’d need one? This article is intended for readers who need a text editor, and a helpful basic overview about them to get started.
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