TextWrangler Tour
General Purpose Text Editor | Programmer’s Text Editor | Unix And Server Administrator’s Tool | Powerful Text Transformer And Manipulator | Good Mac OS Citizen | Powerfully Useful Tool
A general-purpose text editor for light-duty composition, data-file editing (where the data files consist of plain [unstyled] text), and manipulation of text-oriented data. TextWrangler supports working with both plain-text and Unicode files (with the exception of files written using right-to-left writing systems, such as Hebrew or Arabic). TextWrangler also features an integrated spelling checker, as well as integration with Word Services-aware spelling and grammar checkers.

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Text Editing and Manipulating Details
- Powerful single and multi-file search&replace with file filtering options.
- Flexible ‘grep’ style pattern-based search and replace based on PCRE (Perl-Compatible Regular Expression)
- Sort Lines and Process Duplicate Lines plug-ins offer grep pattern support for sorting, extracting, and handling text
- Find Differences to compare two versions of a text file and merge the differences
- Run Text Factories created with BBEdit, allowing you to apply multiple text processing actions to multiple files and/or folders
- Support for a wide variety of BBEdit plug-ins
- Support for rectangular text selections
- Built-in text transformations: Zap Gremlins, Change Case, Entab/Detab, and more
- Open and save files in a variety of character sets, including Unicode (UTF-8 and UTF-16) files
- Supports viewing and editing of multi-byte and Unicode text
- Use of ATSUI for text rendering greatly improves handling of Unicode files, particularly those containing glyphs from disparate languages

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- Quick Search window
- Perform incremental searches
- Open and save files in Mac, Unix, DOS, and Unicode line-ending formats
- Integrated spelling checker with support for external Word Services-aware spelling and grammar checkers – now uses the Mac OS X spelling checker.
- Hard or soft wrap text however you prefer
- Quoted text rewrapper
- Unlimited Undo/Redo
- Multiple Clipboards
- Splittable editing windows
- Auto-Indent
Download TextWrangler here.