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Smultron

Smultron

Easy-to-use, powerful programmer's text editor.

Version:  3.6b1

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Love it

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Contributed by: Central Scrutinizer--2008 Saturday, October 21 2006 @ 12:54 PM PDT

Product Platform: MacOSX

Used Product For: Over One Year

Recommend Product: YES

This is what a "lite" text editor should be! The ability to manage multiple text documents with a form of tabs is brilliant, and Smultron has just enough features to take on most text editing needs without bloat. I can use Word far less often and for that my Mac is all the better.

One shortcoming of Smultron is its inability to handle Apple's RTFD format. I'd love to be able to replace TextEdit with Smultron, but that's just not possible without RTFD support. In today's multimedia environment, I find myself dropping pictures into text documents on a regular basis, meaning that I have to go back to TextEdit, or move up to some bloated crapware like Word.

That's my one request for Smultron: give me a complete light text editing solution, let me remove TextEdit from my system. Pretty please - with sugar on top - add RTFD capability to Smultron.   
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Props for the icon! - Central Scrutinizer--2008

I almost forgot: Props to the developer for such a cool icon. Strawberries rule!

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Saturday, October 21 2006 @ 12:56 PM PDT


It's a text editor - muon

Well... it's a text editor. It's about the power of plain text. If you want to work with RTFD, you need a word processor.

For historical, and other reasons, text editors and word processors do not provide the same functionality. Not even the mighty Emacs likes to work with formatted text, and word processors generally make poor code editors.

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Wednesday, December 27 2006 @ 05:01 PM PST