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.

Looks good an runs smoothPLEASE create an editor for R...

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!

SubEthaEdit's block edit feature is probably the biggest reason I keep using it. Being able to edit multiple lines comes in handy quite often. However, it cannot handle large files, even with coloring turned off, so I have another text editor I use for that. SubEthaEdit isn't a monolithic text editor for every job, but it has a nice place in my toolbox.

Has every feature that the TextEdit that comes with the Mac should have. Highly recommended!

Crashes within moments of trying to open. I'll change my review If there is an update that fixes the problems I'm having with it. I'll also consider changing the review if I can just figure out what is making it crash.

nice editor, great price, excellent privacy policy and open source. What's not to like?

SubEthaEdit is the gold standard for editing text on macOS. Love this app! <3

If you are looking for a text editor with very few bells and whistles, this is it. I live in a world where I regulary use three text editors and this is one of them. I have used SubEthaEdit since the time it was “free” and have paid for it a couple of times now. I do not use it for collboration, I use its Block Edit functionality. I can honestly say that the time this one feature has saved me over the years is well worth the money I spent. My one complaint about this product is the lack of documentation. I am sure that there are gems hidden under the covers, but frankly the documentation is non-existent.

It opens UTF-8 encoded files as UTF-16 encoded.

It is the perfect lightweight alternate to my main IDE. Block Edit functionality is excellent. Simultaneously view/edit different portions of the same file in split screen or separate windows (SHIFT CMD N). Effective search and replace. Change language syntax highlighting, file line endings and character encodings directly on the footer status bar. Collaborative editing is nice to have, though rarely used.