Smultron
Smultron is an open source text editor for Mac OS X that is designed for both beginners and advanced users. It is written in Objective-C using the Cocoa API. It is able to edit and save many different file types, and has syntax highlighting support for many popular programming languages including C, C++, LISP, Java, Python, Ruby, HTML, XML, CSS, Prolog and D. It is released to the public as free software under an Apache License.
Features
Although primarily noted for its breadth of syntax highlighting and text encoding support, Smultron is also noted for its different approach towards column view and multiple tabbing. It can be helpful in the quick creation of websites, and allows the user to utilize and customize shortcuts for other quick coding implementations, and tidy file organization. It includes other features such as split file view, line wrapping, live find/incremental search, a command line utility, line numbers, and an HTML preview. It also makes use of code snippets and hidden preferences that can be modified. There is localization support for Swedish, Chinese (simplified and traditional), English, Czech, French, Hungarian, Finnish, German, Japanese, Dutch, Italian, and Spanish.
History
Created and developed by Swedish programmer Peter Borg. It was first seen registered on Sourceforge in May 2004, and has received much support and feedback from the Mac open-source community. The name of the application is derived from the common Swedish Woodland Strawberry, hence the application symbol. Lingon, another program developed by Borg, is named after another common Scandinavian berry. As of July 31, 2009, Borg has announced that he will no longer be developing Smultron.
On September 12, 2009, Borg announced a new version 3.6beta1 to fix bugs introduced with Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard. He also said he would not be releasing “any more versions for the foreseeable future.”