If you work with code of any kind on your Mac you’ve likely heard of Smultron. If you haven’t and you’ve paid for an advanced text editor (i.e., TextMate) then you need to be let in on something… Smultron. First off, this is a SourceForge project, so its open source. Second, the developer has dedicated a lot of time to improving on the application, and it really shows in 3.0.

Smultron is a very straightforward editor, but under the hood lie a wide range of features. It comes with a load of syntax highlight definitions and scads of text manipulation tools. While its no BBEdit, it does do most everything a coder would need to get work done. It also sports a nice Snippet feature, and the new 3.x line has a scalable document dock which I hope means previews in the near future.

There are three tools I use to make Church of Tyler work and one of them is Smultron. The others are CyberDuck FTP and ImageWell. In CyberDuck I can click on Toolbar button to open a document in Smultron, edit it, and click save in Smultron to upload the changes through CyberDuck. My needs are simple Oh, and Smultron is free, though I would suggest a small donation to the project.

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