![]() ![]() #1626: AirTag replacement battery gotcha, Kindle Kids software flaws, iOS 12.5.6 security fix.#1627: iPhone 14 lineup, Apple Watch SE/Series 8/Ultra, new AirPods Pro, iOS 16 and watchOS 9 released, Steve Jobs Archive.#1628: iPhone 14 impressions, Dark Sky end-of-life, tales from Rogue Amoeba.#1629: iOS 16.0.2, customizing the iOS 16 Lock Screen, iPhone wallet cases, meditate for free with Oak.Whether you’re looking for an alternative to your current word processor for mass-editing purposes, or want a friendly environment in which to hone your programming skills, this freebie is worth a gander. TextWrangler is also a really good app for people who are just learning to code and need an interface in which to practice their skills. For any kind of text editing or text comparison, TextWrangler is a really solid choice. While this app gets categorized under “Developer Tools” in the Mac App Store, TextWrangler is also ideal for less technical projects. This is a big help for anyone who gets visually overwhelmed by big blocks of text. Other little tricks this app has up its sleeve include turning curly quotes into plain quotes and removing duplicate items from a list. TextWrangler also offers coloring cues that help you to distinguish between various bits of programming languages. That’s not to say that this app isn’t still the best in its class, but rather an interesting piece of trivia. As far as I can tell, the latest award to be given to this tool was when TextWrangler 2 won Macworld Magazine’s 2005 Editors’ Choice Award. The Mac App Store description of this app talks about how it is award-winning. Being able to do a “find and replace” search across a bunch of different documents is a huge time saver. I wish all text editors had this simplicity when dealing with multiple files at once. Hard wraps, removal of line breaks, finding spelling errors, and the processing of duplicate lines can all be handled with a few keystrokes. If you want a text editor that lets you have multiple documents open at the same time in the same window interface, that’s a big selling point for TextWrangler. Not ideal for creation of HTML or live WebKit Safari previews for sites, for that you’ll want the sister product from Bare Bones called BBEdit.Doesn’t support Word or RTF docs (only plain text is supported).Automatically saves unsaved work when you quit the app.Easily save your work (or a copy of it) to an FTP/SFTP server.Great for “find and replace” on a massive scale.Work with multiple files at the same time (and see differences between them with ease).Allows for lightning fast search of your various text snippets, while also providing great architecture to keep text pieces organized in a logical fashion.In other words, it offers a full-featured app experience that allows users to edit, manipulate, and utilize different pieces of text with ease. ![]() The developer’s description from the Mac App Store reads (in part) as follows: “TextWrangler’s best-of-class features include…search and replace across multiple files, function navigation and syntax coloring for numerous source code languages, code folding, FTP and SFTP open and save, AppleScript, Mac OS X Unix scripting support.” ![]() If you’re in the market for some new developer tools that won’t break the bank, TextWrangler, developed by Bare Bones Software Inc., may be of interest to you. It’s a shame, because there are a lot of great apps in that category, and I feel like I’m not the only Mac fanatic not giving those apps their due. We all have our own favorite categories to browse in the Mac App Store, and sadly, I often forget all about Developer Tools. One area of the Mac App Store that I don’t pay enough attention to is Developer Tools. ![]()
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