The Best Free Text Editors for Windows, Linux, and Mac Lori Kaufman April 28, 2012, 12:00pm EDT We all use text editors to take notes, save web addresses, write code, as well as other uses.
Most of the text editors below need to be downloaded to your computer before you can use them, but all of them provide their own unique set of features that set them apart from the default programs that come with Windows and Mac. Best text editor for html. Discussion in 'Web Design and Development' started by edmund_dunn, Jan 25, 2016. Atom Text Editor has joined the list of best text editors for Mac and has already left its mark in being quite capable and powerful tool. Atom too is a free and open source text editing tool and is maintained through one of the well-known repository – GitHub.
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My text editor of choice for PHP work is Panic's Coda. But for Ruby on Rails, its autocomplete feature is continuously in my way and ROR's standardization on 2 space tabs does not play well with Coda's settings. I've been going back to TextMate for ROR work, but was wondering if there were better options.
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If you think it's worth to give it a try, in my opinion TextMate is the best but it's not free.
The integrated boundles work very well for Ruby and Ruby On Rails.
There are also boundles for Subversion/Git/etc. which can be very usefull in development.
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This is old, but here's a couple more options that are (currently) free and nice:
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You could try Aptana RadRails, which is free and based on Eclipse (although it seems slightly more stable for pure RoR than Eclipse-with-RadRails-plugin. I've only used it on Windows, but it does seem to have a Mac download available.
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A lot of Ruby on rails developers use TextMate, you can see a lot of in several screencast. But there are a lot of use of MacVim too.
In this twice editor, there are a lot of plugin to help you coding with rails.
In IDE, there are Netbeans too.
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I'd recommend using Textmate, it has nice bundles for Rails and offers a great interface. There's even a peepcode episode about it.
I wouldn't use an IDE for Rails, but if you really want to, both Netbean and Aptana are worth looking at.
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I use textmate and I love it.I recommend installing ProjectPlus plugin that adds svn and git support to textmate drawer ( http://ciaranwal.sh/2008/08/05/textmate-plug-in-projectplus ).
If you are searching for full IDE NetBeans looks very good:(http://netbeans.org/features/ruby/index.html)
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+1 for Textmate and Command Line
I used Eclipse/Radrails for a year and it totally sucks.
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How about Komodo Edit! Its great. and Free!!
Its open source and has features as syntax coloring, method/code folding, background syntax checking and code auto-complete
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