TextWrangler-powerful freeware text editor

 

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TextWrangler is a free text editor from Bare Bones, the maker of BBEdit. I love TextWrangler because it is so powerful in may ways.

 

First, it can open virtually any type of file. Even when it does not recognize the file type, it just opens it anyway. So, when everything else fails, you can try to open it with TextWrangler and see what’s inside.

 

Second, you can remove line breaks with TextWrangler. Project Gutenberg text files have line breaks, which is different to remove, because you do not want to remove every break (then the whole text will be one long line!), but only line breaks. In TextWrangler, you choose Text> Remove Line Breaks, then it removes line breaks.

 

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With line breaks
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Without line breaks

Third, TextWrangler provides grep search function. For example, let’s say your text file contains lines like page 1, page 2, page 3… How can you remove all of them? With grep search, you can search lines that starts with page and ends with number, and remove them (or replace them with something else).

Forth, TextWrangler can handle big files well. For example, it will take forever to open 4mb text file in some text editor, but TextWrangler can open it instantly, and can retrieve search result instantly, too.

 

Finally, TextWrangler can connect to ftp server, and open files from that server. It can also save files to the server.

 

Since TextWrangler is designed as a text editor for coding, you cannot change font size or things like that (for that, use Text Edit). But in most of the case, TextWrangler is the text editor of choice for me.
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