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0 pointsstephenr4y ago0 comments

And on a Mac this is where I fail to see the market for it, particularly at $100.

If you just want something lightweight to open text files but still have some basic syntax highlighting, there are heaps of choices that are better Mac apps. I'd suggest any/all of these three (all of which happen to be OSS but that's not why I recommend them - I didn't actually realise until now that they all are)

- SubEthaEdit: https://subethaedit.net

- CotEditor: https://coteditor.com

- TextMate: https://macromates.com

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rplnt4y ago

In what ways are they better? Or just being more "native" in some way? I use sublime mostly because it has multiline editing and regexp find/replace, these seems to have it too, which is awesome.

(by the way, completely random question: do you happen to know a lightweight image editor on osx? I tried few and they were either not working, bad, or some combination of both; on windows I use Paint.NET which does all I need and is fast, quick to start, etc..)

stephenrOP4y ago

Well they look/behave like regular macOS apps. It's very apparent that Sublime is a cross-platform app IMO. Even IDEA, which has a god damn java UI, manages to integrate better.

They also don't reduce everything to a literal screen of text (seriously, I hit Cmd-, in Sublime to see preferences, and just got an empty text screen... I guess I have to just work out what options it has by randomly trying stuff?).

The extent of my image editing needs on macOS is typically solved by either the "Markup" tool on an image, or Preview (i.e. highlighting/drawing attention to something on a image, and/or cropping an image).