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