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Top Free Mac Source Code Editor

Here is the top free Mac source code editor list that help mac programmers or developer editing programming code at Mac OSX platform. Most of Mac source code editors that listed below have the features specifically designed to simplify and speed up input of source code, such as syntax highlighting, autocomplete and bracket matching functionality.

Top Free Mac Source Code Editor List:

Komodo Edit

Komodo Edit is an open source source code editor that support cross platform like Windows, Mac and Linux. It supports source code editing like PHP, Python, Ruby, JavaScript, Perl, Tcl, XML, HTML 5, CSS 3 with (customizable) syntax coloring, folding, background syntax checking, and excellent auto-complete and calltips.

Smultron

Smultron is a great mac source code editing application designed for basic and advanced users. It was written in Cocoa for Mac OS X with many coding features that code programmer or developer might need such as easy selection of the opened documents, line numbers, syntax coloring for many different languages, text encodings, code snippets, HTML preview, multi-document find and replace with regular expressions, show invisible characters, authenticated saves, command-line utility and many more features.

With Smultron, you can simple edit and save many many popular programming languages file such as  C, C++, LISP, Java, Python, Ruby, HTML, XML, CSS, Prolog, IDL and D.

Besides that, Smultron also work well with CyberDuck (Mac FTP Client), which allow you edit any web source code directly from file browser.

MacVim

MacVim is a Mac version VIM Text editor, which it works similar like official VIM editor but loaded with extra features and GUI interfaces. It can supports multiple windows with tabbed editing and bindings to standard OS X keyboard shortcuts.

Besides that, other features of this mac source code editor are multi-level undo, syntax highlighting, command line history, on-line help, spell checking, filename completion, block operations, transparent background, full screen mode and etc.

However, MacVim is released as charity-ware. In other words, if you like the application, they encourage you to support needy children in Uganda.

AquaMacs

Aquamacs is Emacs text editor mac version, which able to edit and support for hundreds of programming languages and file formats. Meanwhile, this mac source code editor can shows tabs to organize different file buffers in windows, a range of keybindings (keyboard shortcuts) that are standard on Mac OS X, such as Command-W to close a window, or Command-S to save the file, are available.

The latest Aquamac even allows you write LaTeX manuscripts and can be used as external editor (ODB), and is even more reliable than before.

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Posted by km. Filed in Freeware, Mac, Software

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