On the surface, Hog Bay Software’s $25 FoldingText ( Mac App Store link) is a basic text editor. In fact, if you don’t dig too deep, you could easily be fooled into thinking that FoldingText is too ...

When you attempt to paste text from an outside application, the text can carry hidden web code. To remove this code as you paste, use the Paste as Text option. This will ensure that all pre-existing ...

If you need a text or code editor, you can go all the way and use Bare Bones Software’s BBEdit, with its huge number of features, or even its free sibling, TextWrangler, which offers many of BBEdit’s ...

Since you may well have different requirements for a text editor than I do, I included scores for ease of learning and use, look and feel, content editing (spell check, search and replace and the like ...

No, I’m not talking about ASCII art like this little crab. I’m talking about scalable vector graphics or SVG files. Even if you’re familiar with the basic difference between raster and vector images, ...

Online code repository GitHub is taking on the venerable Emacs and Vim text editors by releasing a text editor of its own, called Atom, which it claims is more suited to the Web era of development.

The GitHub package’s Git pane shows a list of recent commits to serve as a quick reference. The Git authentication dialog features the Remember checkbox for storing a user name and password. File ...