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TextWrangler is the “little brother” to BBEdit, a professional HTML and text editor for the Macintosh.

TextWrangler

TextWrangler is the “little brother” to BBEdit, a professional HTML and text editor for the Macintosh.

TextWrangler vs. BBEdit

TextWrangler is a very capable text editor. What sets BBEdit apart is its extensive professional feature set including Web authoring capabilities and software development tools.

How do I get TextWrangler?

Download TextWrangler here.

TextWrangler is a…

  • General Purpose Text Editor
  • Programmer’s Text Editor
  • Unix And Server Administrator’s Tool
  • Powerful Text Transformer And Manipulator
  • Good Mac OS Citizen
  • Powerfully Useful Tool
  • product developed in the best traditions of Bare Bones Software, with high performance, ease of use, a rich feature set, and the ability to read its own release notes.

TextWrangler 4.0 System Requirements

  • Mac OS X 10.6 or later (10.6.8, 10.7.3 or later recommended)
  • Intel Macs only

What about BBEdit Lite?

BBEdit Lite was discontinued a number of years ago, and the world has moved on. TextWrangler and BBEdit have capabilities that were never supported (or possible) in BBEdit Lite:

  • Run natively and at full speed on Macs with Intel processors;
  • Open files from (and save them to) remote FTP and SFTP servers;
  • Pattern matching (BBEdit's grep mode uses a PCRE version from 2003, so recent PCRE features are missing);
  • Support for editing Unicode text files, and converting between text encodings;
  • Find Differences to compare files or folders;
  • Integration with the Unix command-line environment;
  • Advanced and extensible programming language support, with code folding, syntax coloring, and extensibility;

…and much much more.

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Changing Comment Text Color in Text Wrangler

I want to change the comment text color in Text Wrangler on my MAC. It is a faint grey that I don't like seeing. I would like to change it to green if thats possible. Thanks.
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TextWrangler not showing the correct column number when editing fixed-format Fortran

I am maintaining a program written mainly in fixed-format Fortran. I recently switched from a Windows PC to a Mac, and I'm now using TextWrangler to edit my code. I noticed that the indentation in the editor window does not always correspond to the…
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Using Grep in TextWrangler to move a line up

I've got some sloppy text that needs to be cleaned up. Somehow random line breaks got inserted in the middle of paragraphs. This is a paragraph and it got broken into two lines. The manual way to deal with this would be to Place my cursor at the…
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is there a way to edit multiple lines of text in text wrangler

I have opened a csv file in TextWrangler and need to add a few characters to the end of all of the cells. Is there a way to do this without having to copy/paste these characters on each line separately? Thanks!
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Python program written in Notepad++, error in TextWrangler

So I wrote a program in python using NotePad++ in Windows, but then when I opened the file in Mac computer using TextWrangler or any text editor in it and after compiling it, there was an error message regarding indentation. How can I easily fix…
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Remove dashes surrounded by numbers on both sides

I'm trying to search and replace using regex in TextWrangler (https://gist.github.com/ccstone/5385334, http://www.barebones.com/products/textwrangler/textwranglerpower.html) I have rows like this 56-84 29 STRINGOFLETTERS -2.54 I´d like to…
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How to extract a part of the url through regular expression in textwrangler?

My work involves manipulating lots of data. I use textwrangler as text editor but I guess the things would remain the same on all text editors. So I have a url …
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Mac Searching "Kinds'

I am trying to uninstall TextWrangler on my mac and have deleted the app and most of the files i could find in the Library however when I go to the search in Finder and start typing "textwrangler" it has the suggestion bar come up with kinds of…
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How to use grep to search for an exact word match in TextWrangler

There is a possibility to search using grep in TextWrangler I want to find and replace the following word: bauvol, but not bauvolumen. I tried typing ^bauvol$ into the search field but that didn't do the trick, it didn't find anything, although the…
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Delete text with GREP in Textwrangler

I have the following source code from the Wikipedia page of a list of Games. I need to grab the name of the game from the source, which is located within the title attribute, as follows:
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Replacing one column with a value from another in a tab-delimited file

I have a tab-delimited .txt file that has the format of: chrI 0 1 -4.231 chrI 1 2 -3.257 chrI 2 3 -2.653 chrI 3 4 -2.102 chrI 4 5 -1.685 chrI 5 6 -1.331 chrI 6 7 -1.036 chrI 7 8 -0.728 chrI …
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Deleting specific lines in a delimited txt file - TextWrangler

I've got a txt file containing delimited columns: chrI 31 31 0 chrI 32 32 0 chrI 33 33 0 chrI 34 34 0 chrI 35 35 0 chrI 36 36 0 chrI 37 37 0.000967201 chrI 38 38 0.003865064 chrI 39 39 0.008682376 chrI …
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Vexing Python syntax error

I am writing a python script using version 2.7.3. In the script a line is toolsDir = 'tools/' When I run this in terminal I get SyntaxError: invalid syntax on the last character in the string 'r'. I've tried renaming the string, using " as opposed…
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Regex to replace a character between two l

My text file has more than ten thousand lines. Each line starts with a word or a phrase followed by a tab and the content, such as: [line 1] This is the first line. [tab] Here is the content.[end of line] I want to find character s in all the words…
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Can't pass text input variable outside of if statement?

I'm trying to get the user to enter their name into a text box, and then output it through each page (part of switch and case): default: $message = "Enter your name and click start."; $nextDecision = "
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