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Top 9 Text Editors in OSX

The best Text Editors within the OSX category - based on our collection of reviews & verified products.

Atom Vim GNU Emacs BBEdit Kate PhpStorm Light Table Kakoune Spacemacs

Summary

The top products on this list are Atom, Vim, and GNU Emacs. All products here are categorized as: Software designed for writing and editing plain text, offering functionalities ranging from simple note-taking to complex code editing and document formatting. Software and applications specifically for macOS. One of the criteria for ordering this list is the number of mentions that products have on reliable external sources. You can suggest additional sources through the form here.
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    At GitHub, we’re building the text editor we’ve always wanted: hackable to the core, but approachable on the first day without ever touching a config file. We can’t wait to see what you build with it.

    #Text Editors #IDE #Software Development 152 social mentions

  2. 2

    Vim

    Highly configurable text editor built to enable efficient text editing
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Text Editors #Software Development #IDE 10 social mentions

  3. GNU Emacs is an extensible, customizable text editor—and more.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Text Editors #IDE #Software Development 6 social mentions

  4. 4
    BBEdit is a professional HTML and text editor for Macintosh that provides features for editing, searching, and minipulation of text for web authors and software developers.

    #Text Editors #IDE #Software Development

  5. 5
    The Kate Editor Homepage

    #Text Editors #IDE #Software Development 44 social mentions

  6. Professional IDE for PHP and Web Developers

    #Text Editors #IDE #Software Development

  7. Light Table is a new interactive IDE that lets you modify running programs and embed anything from...

    #Text Editors #IDE #Software Development 11 social mentions

  8. Vim inspired — Faster as in less keystrokes — Multiple selections — Orthogonal design

    #Text Editors #IDE #Software Development 9 social mentions

  9. Community-driven Emacs distribution that meshes Emacs and Vim features.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Text Editors #IDE #Software Development 6 social mentions

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