SubEthaEdit
Code, Write, Edit. Together.
Only for Mac
Free
The powerful plain text and source editor thats native on macOS. Free and open source.
The app that started the collaborative editing revolution is back. Write articles, code, notes or meeting minutes with friends – wherever they are. Ideal for extreme programming sessions.
SubEthaEdit kickstarted collaborative editing with its easy and immediate way to connect and edit. Just add your co-workers to the document and start typing. No complicated setup, browser or Internet required.
2003 Apple Design Award Winner.
Features:
• Syntax Highlighting and Autocomplete for ActionScript, bash, C, C++, CSS, ERB, Erlang, Elixir, Go, HTML, Java, Javascript, JSON, LaTeX, Lua, Markdown, Objective-C, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, TOML, wren and XML
• Extensible architecture for custom modes for your favorite language or format
• Regular expression search and replace
• Extensive support for converting and reading text-encodings
• Bracket matching
• Code folding
• Autocomplete based on your content
• Word counter, invisible characters
Collaboration:
• Collaboration over the Internet or the local network
• Read-only mode for network documents
• Public and private network documents
more This is a very nice and clean editor that I like quite a bit. It's also fast. What's a bother is that it doesn't have good column mode editing. TextMate for example has an ingeniously intuitive column mode where you can simply option-select or mouse click select and then edit multiple lines at once, even when moving to the end of the line to keep editing. SubEthaEdit is trying that but its block mode isn't working well at all. I sincerely hope that the developers can iron out those quirks and also give it better brace/parenthesis/bracket matching.
This is a very nice and clean editor that I like quite a bit. It's also fast. What's a bother is that it doesn't have good column mode editing. TextMate for example has an ingeniously intuitive column mode where you can simply option-select or mouse click select and then edit multiple lines at once, even when moving to the end of the line to keep editing. SubEthaEdit is trying that but its block mode isn't working well at all. I sincerely hope that the developers can iron out those quirks and also give it better brace/parenthesis/bracket matching.
Low overhead, quick loading, clean UI, and a direct, lightweight text editor. Not Notes, not TextEdit, not (gaah) Pages or (spew) Word.There are many many many cases where all you need is a quick light editor. And there are plenty of cases where you might want to do some simple HTML or script altering without loading an entire web IDE.And there are plenty of apps that do those things, but this one loads fast, doesn't make a fuss of itself, and lets you get the job done quickly.
Low overhead, quick loading, clean UI, and a direct, lightweight text editor. Not Notes, not TextEdit, not (gaah) Pages or (spew) Word.There are many many many cases where all you need is a quick light editor. And there are plenty of cases where you might want to do some simple HTML or script altering without loading an entire web IDE.And there are plenty of apps that do those things, but this one loads fast, doesn't make a fuss of itself, and lets you get the job done quickly.
I've been using SEE for ages and was a little disappointed when I saw that it had become a free application, assuming the Developer would let it die. That MOST DEFINITELY does not seem to be the case. This is one of my favorite tools for development when a full-featured IDE is a bit too much and is my preferred native MacOS text to editor. Seeing it in the list of recently updated applications today and reading the patch notes brought a big smile to my face knowing that SEE is not dead. Thank you!
I've been using SEE for ages and was a little disappointed when I saw that it had become a free application, assuming the Developer would let it die. That MOST DEFINITELY does not seem to be the case. This is one of my favorite tools for development when a full-featured IDE is a bit too much and is my preferred native MacOS text to editor. Seeing it in the list of recently updated applications today and reading the patch notes brought a big smile to my face knowing that SEE is not dead. Thank you!
Has every feature that the TextEdit that comes with the Mac should have. Highly recommended!
Has every feature that the TextEdit that comes with the Mac should have. Highly recommended!
Bug fixes:
• Updated expired certificate on the see tool installer
• Fixed issues with german localization
5.2.4 01/08/2022
Bug fixes and maintenance:
- Fixed issue where open remote documents were incorrectly autosaved and reopened locally on next startup
Modes:
- New Mode: wren ( https://wren.io )
5.2.3 01/04/2022
Features:
• Autosaves and restores unsaved untitled windows now on quit to be less intrusive
Bug fixes:
• Fixed an issue where the services menu did not get the contents of the selection
• Fixed issues with scripting and document ids
• Fixed issue on macOS 12 where saving scripts could mark them quarantined and not executable anymore
Improvements:
• Improved Lua mode to better support pico-8 files
5.2.2 11/15/2021
Features:
• New Line spacing preference
• Clear and disable search history
• Move selected paragraphs a line up/down
Improvements:
• Modernised look of line numbers and position field
• Modernised look of inivisble characters
• Improved visual stability of top status bar
• Made preferences layout more consistentFixed layout issues in web preview
5.2.1 07/19/2021
Features:
• macOS 11 style app icon
• Modernised search and replace user interface
• Modernised preference user interface
Bug fixes and maintenance:
• Fixed layout issues in web preview
• Fixed issue where the split view icon could disappear
Improved modes:
• Made bash mode also trigger for .zshrc/.zshenv
5.2 02/26/2021
• Fixed issue with find next/previous not being mapped to cmd-g anymore in the english localization
Changes in 5.1.6:
Bug fixes and maintenance:
• Modernised the document hub
• Modernised open URL popover
• Fixed crashing issue when connecting to manual addresses or see urls
• Fixed issue with printing and multiple pages on macOS 11
• Moved selection of the current highlighted entity from triple to 4 clicks, keeping double and triple click more in line with the system behavior
Improved modes:
• Fixed wrong highlight of default in python mode
5.1.7 12/13/2020
Bug fixes and maintenance:
• Modernised the document hub
• Modernised open URL popover
• Fixed crashing issue when connecting to manual addresses or see urls
• Fixed issue with printing and multiple pages on macOS 11
• Moved selection of the current highlighted entity from triple to 4 clicks, keeping double and triple click more in line with the system behavior
Improved modes:
• Fixed wrong highlight of default in python mode
5.1.6 12/10/2020
Features:
• Support for macOS 11
• Native support for the M1 chip
Bug fixes and maintenance:
• Updated the certificate the see-tool installer is signed with
• Increased size limit for default syntax highlighting
• Add Change Log to Help menu
5.1.5 11/11/2020
Features:
• New Option: Show inconsistent indentations - easily see mixed use of tabs and spaces.
• New Option: System monospaced Font is now available in the style preferences.
Bug fixes and maintenance:
• Fixed issue with style preferences that could lead to the font change not being taken.
Improved modes:
• Markdown preview: Fixed wrong table header colors in light mode
• Markdown preview: Fixed incorrect stripping of leading whitespace in code blocks
• Improved Bash mode: Added support for heredoc strings
5.1.4 07/06/2020
Features:
• Added text transformation feature for preview for modes, to enable e.g. Markdown preview
Bug fixes and maintenance:
• Fixed issue that could lose data when saving while having folded text
• Fixed issue where SubEthaEdit could hang completely if one used blockedit while having more than one view of the same file open
• Improved performance on files with very many lines
Improved modes:
• Improved Markdown Mode: added a markdown preview
• Improved Objective-C mode to handle properties with generic types better
5.1.3 03/26/2020
Bugfixes and Maintenance:
• Fixed issue where SubEthaEdit did not open documents when reacting to Spotlight searches
• Improved dark mode appearance
• Fixed an issue with the folding bar not unfolding correctly
• Switched tab shortcuts to the current system standard: ctrl-tab
• Improved handling of hidden extensions
• Improved display of document titles
• Made asking for revert less annoying by improving the recognition of real changes
Improved modes:
• Improved bash mode to handle complex $() interpolations better
New In 5.1:
Features:
• Switched to native macOS window tabs, removed PSMTabBarControl
• Improved Regular Expression features and speed. See Help > Regular Expressions for updated documentation and additional capabilities
• Improved security dialogs and `see` command line tool for future releases of macOS
• `see` command line tool now follows symlinks
Bug fixes and maintenance:
• Updated underlying RegEX Library (origuruma-mod) to onigmo 6.2
• Updated OgreKit to 3.0.2
• Fixed cascading of new windows to be of proper height and location
• Fixed top status bar to use fixed width at start for less jitter
• Blur behind bars now properly created using NSVisualEffectView
• Improved performance in general and for big font choices especially
• Upped minimum deployment version to macOS High Sierra and cleaned out dead code
• Moved all code to ARC (Automatic Reference Counting)
• Fixed remaining false colored dialogs and windows for dark mode
Improved modes:
• Markdown – improved syntax highlighting of code blocks
• HTML - improved symbol recognition
5.1.2 12/15/2019
Bugfixes and Maintenance:
• Fixed an issue where default Avatars would look too contrasty in dark appearance
• Fixed top status bar text readability on live light/dark appearance change
• Fixed an issue where invitation windows needed to be dismissed twice to deny the invitation
• Updated the certificate for the `see` tool installer
• Fixed a rare crasher in TCMPortMapper
Improved modes:
• bash - improved indenting, handling of escaped strings and variables
New In 5.1:
Features:
• Switched to native macOS window tabs, removed PSMTabBarControl
• Improved Regular Expression features and speed. See Help > Regular Expressions for updated documentation and additional capabilities
• Improved security dialogs and `see` command line tool for future releases of macOS
• `see` command line tool now follows symlinks
Bug fixes and maintenance:
• Updated underlying RegEX Library (origuruma-mod) to onigmo 6.2
• Updated OgreKit to 3.0.2
• Fixed cascading of new windows to be of proper height and location
• Fixed top status bar to use fixed width at start for less jitter
• Blur behind bars now properly created using NSVisualEffectView
• Improved performance in general and for big font choices especially
• Upped minimum deployment version to macOS High Sierra and cleaned out dead code
• Moved all code to ARC (Automatic Reference Counting)
• Fixed remaining false colored dialogs and windows for dark mode
Improved modes:
• Markdown – improved syntax highlighting of code blocks
• HTML - improved symbol recognition
5.1.1 10/06/2019
Features:
• Switched to native macOS window tabs, removed PSMTabBarControl
• Improved Regular Expression features and speed. See Help > Regular Expressions for updated documentation and additional capabilities
• Improved security dialogs and `see` command line tool for future releases of macOS
• `see` command line tool now follows symlinks
Bug fixes and maintenance:
• Fixed dark appearance of encoding panel and encoding conflict resolution dialog
• Updated underlying RegEX Library (origuruma-mod) to onigmo 6.2
• Updated OgreKit to 3.0.2
• Fixed cascading of new windows to be of proper height and location
• Fixed top status bar to use fixed width at start for less jitter
• Blur behind bars now properly created using NSVisualEffectView
• Improved performance in general and for big font choices especially
• Upped minimum deployment version to macOS High Sierra and cleaned out dead code
• Moved all code to ARC (Automatic Reference Counting)
• Fixed remaining false colored dialogs and windows for dark mode
Improved modes:
• Markdown – improved syntax highlighting of code blocks
• HTML - improved symbol recognition
5.1 09/21/2019
Bug fixes and maintenance:
• Fixed performance issue that caused SubEthaEdit to get slower and more CPU intensive with every additional window
• Fixed an issue with the line number bar overlapping the text on scroll when line wrapping was turned off
• Fixed an issue where the initial character width value when turning on line wrap was wrong
• Fixed small memory leaks
• Fixed an issue with the command line install helper and case sensitive file systems
• Removed superfluous logging
Improved modes:
• Markdown – improved the symbol navigation
5.0.2 04/08/2019
Bug fixes and maintenance:
• Fixed an issue where the undo buffer could get corrupted in certain situations with a non empty selection
• Fixed ODB support, fixes external editor support for Fetch
New modes:
• Elixir Phoenix EEx
Improved modes:
• Elixir
• Javascript
5.0.1 01/29/2019
Now free and open source! The ideal tool for education, pair programming and tutoring and all your plain text editing needs.
Features:
• Support for Mojave Dark Appearance
• Overall facelift
• In bundle distribution of see command line tool and authentication script
Bug fixes and maintenance:
• Improved performance
• Improved reliability of see tool
• Fixed an issue where "Open Terminal Here" did not work reliably.
New Modes:
• TOML
• Markdown
• JSON
5.0 11/28/2018
• New option to open empty document window on startup.
• Option to open Document HUD window works with empty document option.
• Saving unknown file types or .seetext filetype to names with different extension no longer causes .(null) extension dialog.
• "Save As…" from a .seetext file to a file with different extension no longer causes save error.
• "Find All" displays all results correctly.
4.1 02/25/2015
IMPROVED
• Mode improvements for indentation and "Close last Block/Tag"
• Included styles to support mode changes
• Indentation on enter and reindent
• State restauration restores last used font and font size per document
FIXED
• Regular Expression support for non-NL line endings
• Indent setting of Mode State now is respected
• State restoration behaviour when quit with keep windows and changes present
• Crash when invited to document
• Empty user images with coda 2.x
4.0.3 08/19/2014
NEW
• Updated German localization
• Mode creation documentation accessible via the help menu
IMPROVED
• Enabled undo/redo in find and replace text fields
• Collaboration workflow so it is easier to advertise documents
• Zoom all windows behaviour with open Document Hub
• Appearance on upcoming OS releases
• Included styles for better contrast and legibility
• Support for creating custom modes
• Support for retina resolutions
• C and Objective-C mode
FIXED
• Crash while printing on a German system
• Crash related to rare networking conditions
• Bracket matching could cause a crash
• Crash related to syntax block detection
• Display errors when collaborating with Coda
• Better handling of unrecognized filetypes
• Command line tool -w option did not wait correctly
• German localization now features Help → Search item
• App icon badge could display a wrong number
4.0.2 07/08/2014
• A fresh UI, ready for the future of OS X
• Reindenting
• New color theming engine
• Support for Back to my Mac
• Improved Modes
• 64bit support
• Sandbox compliance for additional security
• Various bug fixes
4.0.1 06/12/2014
Bug fixes:
• Updated expired certificate on the see tool installer
• Fixed issues with german localization
more Version 5.2.4 01/08/2022
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