SWEintro
SWEintro
1. Notepad++
is a free and open source code editor for Windows.
It is easy to use for beginners and highly powerful for advanced users.
It comes with syntax highlighting for many languages including PHP, JavaScript,
HTML, and CSS.
It also comes with a built-in FTP plugin that allows you to connect to your server
and edit files directly without leaving the editor.
2. TextWrangler
came out of the popular BBEdit text editor. This powerful and feature rich
text editor is a freeware.
It comes with a very intuitive user interface that makes it super easy to browse
files and work on projects.
It has advanced search and replace tools, and it can directly edit and save files
to FTP, SFTP servers.
It offers syntax highlighting for many programing languages, fully supports utf-8,
and even allows you to convert character encoding of text documents.
3. Coda
is perhaps one of the most loved web development and programming editor for
Mac.
It is famous for its ridiculously good looking interface, and smart powerful
features.
It allows you to edit local or remote files, manage projects, work on multiple
files at once with easy switching between tabs.
It has built in terminal, debugger, web kit preview and inspector, and so many
awesome features.
Code costs $99 for a single license but it is totally worth the price.
4. Sublime Text
is a cross-platform code editor for Mac, Windows, and Linux.
It comes with all the features you would expect from a powerful code editor and
then some more.
It looks beautiful and you can tweak the appearance to make it more comfortable for
you.
Sublime Text comes with advanced code editor features which allow you to autofill,
autocomplete, reference function in a file, multiple selection, split editing, and
many more.
Sublime Text is available on trial and a single license will cost you $70.
5. TextMate
promises to bring Apple�s approach to operating systems into a text editor.
TextMate is a simple yet feature rich code editor for Mac.
Easy clip board management, sophisticated find and replace, autocompletion,
foldable code blocks, are some of the powerful features of TextMate.
6. Atom
is a cross-platform code editor created by developers for developers.
It is open source, and much like WordPress, Atom users can submit packages and
themes for the software.
It looks pretty and you can change the appearance by installing themes.
It comes with built-in package manager to extend it, smart autocompletion, file
system browser, multiple panes, find and replace.
7. BBEdit
is a beautiful code and HTML editor for Mac.
It comes with all the advanced features of a powerful code editor. Syntax
highlighting, advanced find and replace, autocompletion, quick lookup, multiple
tabs, splittable editing windows and much more.
BBEdit costs $49.99, you can also download a free trial version.
8. UltraEdit
is a powerful HTML and Code editor available for Mac, Windows, and Linux.
It comes with a built-in file comparison utility, autocompletion, advanced layout,
multi-tab, multi-pane editors, and syntax highlighting for the most popular
programming languages.
UltraEdit costs $79.5 with a limited free trial version available for download.
9. Vim
is an advanced text editor that brings the power of Vi to an equally powerful
feature set.
Vim is open source and available for Mac, Windows, and Linux. Vim is so powerful
and advanced that it is considered to be an IDE in its own way.
10. Brackets
was founded by Adobe to push web editors into the new age.
It claims to be an advanced code editor that understands web designs.
Brackets can take hints from a PSD file and allows you to write code faster and
better.
Brackets is open source and available for Mac, Windows, and Linux.
CoffeeCup HTML Editor costs $69 with a limited free trial version available for
download.
12. Espresso
is a web development tool for Mac.
It comes with a powerful code editor and built-in CSSEdit.
It comes with beautiful interface and advanced features like drag and drop code
snippets, code folding, navigator, live styling and X-ray preview.