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What is the best Mac OS X text editor for a web developer? And what makes it great?

25th October 2010

My answer to What is the best Mac OS X text editor for a web developer? And what makes it great? on Quora

It’s still TextMate for me. It gets the basics right—syntax highlighting, sensible indentation, a good project pane (I use “mate ~/Development/my-project” at the terminal to open TextMate with my entire folder hierarchy), solid extensions and good unix integration (Filter selection through command).

It’s not perfect, but it’s the best I’ve found.