By kpm on

I am curious about this and should mention I am new to Macs, but I am playing with the 'aquasoft' theme, and can open all the txt files in the theme, but when I open page.tpl.php TextEdit seems to be attempting to display symbols rather than ascii text. So I get a couple dots, a line, and some question marks in blue boxes rather than the code that I need to edit. Very strange. Any Mac users out there know why this is??

Thanks

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jpsalter’s picture

jpsalter commented

Try setting the Preferences -> New Document -> Opening files: to "Automatic"

Sivert Almvik’s picture

Sivert Almvik commented

I recommend Smultron for OS X.
It has coloured tags for PHP, HTML, CSS and so on. It's just great!

Christefano-oldaccount’s picture

Christefano-oldaccount commented

A free text editor I recommend all the time is TextWrangler. The support for regular expressions (aka find-and-replace) is unparalled, except of course when compared to it's older brother, BBEdit.

I also recommend SubEthaEdit, but since version 2.5 it's no longer free for personal use (versions 2.4 and older are). It is, in my opinion, the editor when you need live, collaborative editing of a document with other developers. I know devout Windows developers who bought Macs just to use it.

I find myself using TextMate the most these days. I just wish it worked with the VI Input Manager.