What is the name of this obscure Mac text editor that draws ASCII art boxes and lines by dragging them out? [more inside]
posted by Wild_Eep on Nov 8, 2009 - 3 answers

Does my perfect full screen text editor exist? [more inside]
posted by Joe Beese on Mar 11, 2009 - 5 answers

Looking for a Mac text editor that can do a horizontal split pane (i.e. two panes showing the same document, side by side) [more inside]
posted by electric_counterpoint on Mar 2, 2009 - 10 answers

I'm beginning the long process of physically typing my dissertation, and I want to tap the hive mind for how to make the best use of my text editor. Yes, I said text editor: I know that programmers swear by emacs/vim/whatever for physically manipulating text, and I want to know what tricks they know that will be useful for someone writing actual English, not just code. [more inside]
posted by philosophygeek on Feb 11, 2009 - 21 answers

In a monospace text editor, how can I highlight a bounded, rectangular area? [more inside]
posted by casaubon on Jan 5, 2009 - 6 answers

I want a text editor for Mac with auto-indent the way Textpad for PC does it, along with syntax highlighting. [more inside]
posted by jesirose on Oct 27, 2007 - 12 answers

Help me ditch Word, yet still deliver a document that uses Word templates. [more inside]
posted by grumblebee on Sep 3, 2007 - 17 answers

Help me find a particular vi quick reference card/picture. [more inside]
posted by kuperman on Feb 9, 2007 - 4 answers

Are there any text editors for Mac that can do FTP the way HTML-Kit (for Windows) does? [more inside]
posted by shaneflyer on Mar 28, 2006 - 18 answers

How can I make the blue text brighter, in vim, in cygwin? [more inside]
posted by bingo on Aug 13, 2005 - 13 answers