I’ve been using my Macbook for a few months now, and loving every minute of it.  But while I’ve got OpenOffice & iWork Pages`09 for document editing, I need a good editor for code (HTML, JS, Python, C, Shell scripts, etc).  So I’ve begun looking around, and I’m a bit confounded by all the options.  Here’s what i’ve found so far:

I’m a big VIM fan, using it on Windows& Unix, so MacVIM appeals to me immediately.  But with a change of OS, I wonder if a change of Editor is due as well?  So what’s the difference in these?  Why should I choose one over another?  Here’s what I know so far:

  • Coda is beautiful & powerful, but designed primarily for Web Editing, which means it would probably falter at editing Python & C code
  • TextWrangler is a free & feature-reduced version of BBEdit (both are from BareBones software)
  • jEdit is Java Based, so it will run on Mac, Windows, & Linux.. Which means I could use the same configuration at home & at work.

What else?  Why would I choose/not choose a particular editor?

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