Macworld: TextWrangler Update Improves the Free Mac Text Editor
There’s a slew of software announcements making their way out of Macworld, including a update to one of our favorites, Bare Bones’ free text editor, TextWrangler. Ostensibly TextWrangler is the free (as in beer) stripped down counterpart to Bare Bones’ full fledged text editor BBEdit, though with each new release TextWrangler is less and less stripped down.
TextWrangler 2.3 features a much improved Disk Browser that now features drag-and-drop support. For instance, if you have your file listing open in Disk Browser and drag a file onto the TextWrangler window it will open the file. But even better, if you drag the file over to an open Terminal window, or any other app that support file URLs, the path will automatically be added. In short, the Disk Browser now behaves much more like Apple’s Finder app.
Other notable improvements include a refined interface for the FTP browser, built-in support for the Lua programming language and a better Python language module.
A full list of all the new features and bug fixes in TextWrangler 2.3 can be found in the release notes.
If you’re looking for a free and robust text editor on the Mac platform, TextWrangler remains our top pick.
[via Daring Fireball]
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