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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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How do I write into Textwrangler with Applescript?

I would like to build a shortcut for Sweave's chunck when I am writting R code. I use Textwrangler and I am pretty sure I can do it with an Apple script but I know very few of it. The idea would be to add where my cursor is : <>= @ Does…
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Grep Select ALL Images in code block

I've searched across multiple sources for both Grep and RegEx selectors to select all images in a massive collection of garbled code and text. The closest I've come is How to Use grep to find '../images/', which didn't work for me. I need to select…
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Target file names using Regex

If I have a list of file names in an XML and want to remove all instances where the file name doesn't have a file extension, how can I do this using regular expressions? I need to do the replace in TextWrangler and have no other option…
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How to find and replace in a text editor?

I am very new to text editing, so I'm sorry if this question is unclear, let me know if there's anything I can specify to make my question more understandable. My file has 27 tab-separated columns and thousands of rows. I want to replace tabs…
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TextWrangler - move text to the end of the line

I have a text file containing only text lines like this: (abc) defghjklmnop I want the whole bracket to be at the end. So it should look like this: defghjklmnop (abc) The text in the bracket and the text after it vary from line to line. How can I…
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External Style Sheet Wont Link

I have been trying to link my external styles sheet to my html for a while now and I can't seem to make it happen. I have both files saved in the same folder on my desktop and am using text wrangler to write. I can see what the page should look like…
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Why is the semicolon unrecognized when running this perl script?

Code from text editor Terminal Error. I'm trying to set up Moss(stanford plagarism checker for CS), and when I run the script an error not recognizing semicolon in the script comes up?. This is being run on Mac OSX using textwrangler as the text…
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Using Grep and BBEdit/Textwrangler to copy a set variable and paste it earlier in the line

I have a long HTML document with a list of 10-digit text variables that I'd like to copy and paste into a link earlier in the line, for example: 1234567890 Into: 1234567890 So, a Grep…
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why is python 2.7 "Acting" like python 3?

i just started learning Python (w no prior programing experience whatsoever) so i was asked to get TextWrangler and type: print "hello world" (of course) and then RUN it through Terminal app on Mac. i was also asked to use Python 2.7 NOT Python 3!!!…
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Deleting lines 1 to 41000 at once from TextWrangler file

I need to delete lines 1 through 41839 from a file using Textwrangler. Is there an easy way to do this without having to manually go in an highlight all forty-one thousand lines.
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How to Open an Infile in TextWrangler

I'm using TextWrangler on a Mac to run Perl. I have a text file that I want to open as an input file to TextWrangler, but I keep getting the error message, Error: cannot open file simap data.txt for reading. I know my code is correct because it…
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How to add # in front of multiple line of code?

I see others do this but have no clue how they did. As title, if I want to add # in front of multiple line of code so that these code wont run, like this print A print B print C Then I want them become # print A # print B # print C What is…
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