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Posted by Angela McGourlay
Angela McGourlay
231 Points

Advice on text editing software for macs

Any advice on what, if any, text editing software I should get for the Mac? I'm a complete beginner. Should I be getting something to practice what I'm learning or do I practice everything in workspaces? Sorry if that sounds dumb but I'm just starting out.

7 Answers

elk6
elk6
22,916 Points
elk6
elk6
22,916 Points

Hi Angela,

Sublime Text is a very good text editor which has the syntaxes for pretty much all languages.

You can download version 2 for mac from http://www.sublimetext.com/2.

christian galvez
christian galvez
2,549 Points
christian galvez
christian galvez
2,549 Points

definitely Sublime Text 3, its free! plus so many plugs-in.

Nejc Vukovic
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Nejc Vukovic
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Nejc Vukovic
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Nejc Vukovic
Full Stack JavaScript Techdegree Graduate 51,574 Points

Well it totaly up to you.

Text Editors: Sublime Text, Notepad++ IDE'S: NetBeans, Coda 2, Komodo IDE, Eclipse

Use the workspaces to play along on treehouse but for self use a IDE like NetBeans (it's free).

My point of view.

Johanna Myers
Johanna Myers
15,172 Points
Johanna Myers
Johanna Myers
15,172 Points

I use Atom and I love it!

https://atom.io/

Julian Betancourt
Julian Betancourt
11,466 Points
Julian Betancourt
Julian Betancourt
11,466 Points

You definitely wanna practice in a text editor besides of workspaces. I personally like sublime text, but you should google some text editors and stay with the one YOU like the most.

Andrew Cauthorn
Andrew Cauthorn
8,846 Points
Andrew Cauthorn
Andrew Cauthorn
8,846 Points

TextMate is great.

Angela McGourlay
Angela McGourlay
231 Points
Angela McGourlay
Angela McGourlay
231 Points

Thank you everyone for your responses.