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- Version: 3.0.2, 12/5/2007 03:40AM PST
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ProjectWizards (ProjectWizards)
When it was free - Version: 2.6.2, 3/9/2007 10:47AM PST
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wgscott
Subethaedit was my favorite OS X text editor (although I regularly use vim). I never used the collaborative feature, I just used SEE as a standard GUI editor, but when it became payware, I had to decide if it was really worth it.
I decided to pay for an OS X text editor, even though I am happy with vim. However, the feature sets I found worth paying for were in TextMate, so I bought that one instead. You should take a look at that before making a final decision.
Older versions of SEE are also available for free for non-commerical users.
I decided to pay for an OS X text editor, even though I am happy with vim. However, the feature sets I found worth paying for were in TextMate, so I bought that one instead. You should take a look at that before making a final decision.
Older versions of SEE are also available for free for non-commerical users.
Good for source code 
- Version: 2.6, 2/1/2007 09:45AM PST
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reowen
SubEthaEdit works well as a source code editor (I don't happen to use its collaborative features so I won't comment on those). It is clean, reliable and has good support. Nice features include:
- Nice, clean find/replace dialog box
- The "function" menu lists classes, functions, etc. nicely indented and with separate icons for classes, functions, etc.
- Always shows you which function or class you are in
- Very adaptable language-specific settings (e.g. for indent and wrap)
- Can highlight what you have changed
- Script menu (but applescripts only)
- Mode menu contains useful language-specific tools (and shows only the tools appropriate for the current language)
However, I do miss some features from other editors:
- No keyboard shortcut editor
- No direct support for scripts written in Python or Perl (you can get there from AppleScript but it's very clumsy)
- No search and replace in multiple files (though I think this is planned)
- No way to diff two files (use Apple's FileMerge instead)
- No "project" support (for managing sets of files)
The undo is a approximately word-at-a-time, which is chunkier than TextMate (one character at a time--ugh!) but still can seem too fine. It could use some way to undo bigger chunks.
Alternative source code editors to consider (though none have SubEthaEdit's collaborative features) include:
- TextWrangler: free, stable and full featured, but has a very clumsy find/replace dialog box.
- Smultron: free and a fairly similar feature set to SubEthaEdit
- TextMate: amazing feature set (though a bit cluttered). I'd probably use it but I find the character-at-a-time undo a show-stopper.
SubEthaEdit editor is a very good editor at a very reasonable price.
- Nice, clean find/replace dialog box
- The "function" menu lists classes, functions, etc. nicely indented and with separate icons for classes, functions, etc.
- Always shows you which function or class you are in
- Very adaptable language-specific settings (e.g. for indent and wrap)
- Can highlight what you have changed
- Script menu (but applescripts only)
- Mode menu contains useful language-specific tools (and shows only the tools appropriate for the current language)
However, I do miss some features from other editors:
- No keyboard shortcut editor
- No direct support for scripts written in Python or Perl (you can get there from AppleScript but it's very clumsy)
- No search and replace in multiple files (though I think this is planned)
- No way to diff two files (use Apple's FileMerge instead)
- No "project" support (for managing sets of files)
The undo is a approximately word-at-a-time, which is chunkier than TextMate (one character at a time--ugh!) but still can seem too fine. It could use some way to undo bigger chunks.
Alternative source code editors to consider (though none have SubEthaEdit's collaborative features) include:
- TextWrangler: free, stable and full featured, but has a very clumsy find/replace dialog box.
- Smultron: free and a fairly similar feature set to SubEthaEdit
- TextMate: amazing feature set (though a bit cluttered). I'd probably use it but I find the character-at-a-time undo a show-stopper.
SubEthaEdit editor is a very good editor at a very reasonable price.
But even beyond that: I reported a strange crash of SEE (which happens very rarely to me) just a few days ago - it was one the these "unreproducible" issues ;-) I've received a message from the developer the same day and they managed it to fix this crash in no time!
That's how it should be. Guys, I appreciate your work!