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What is the best Mac OS X text editor for a web developer? And what makes it great?

25th October 2010

My answer to What is the best Mac OS X text editor for a web developer? And what makes it great? on Quora

It’s still TextMate for me. It gets the basics right—syntax highlighting, sensible indentation, a good project pane (I use “mate ~/Development/my-project” at the terminal to open TextMate with my entire folder hierarchy), solid extensions and good unix integration (Filter selection through command).

It’s not perfect, but it’s the best I’ve found.

This is What is the best Mac OS X text editor for a web developer? And what makes it great? by Simon Willison, posted on 25th October 2010.

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