Trance Software

TextForge Open Source / Free Software

TextForge is a text editor for Mac OS X, written using the Cocoa API. TextForge was built from scratch to provide a reliable, powerful, fast, efficient, and Mac OS X native solution for editing text documents. Some highlights are:

• Tools like...
  • Advance search and replace capabilities with full regular expression support
  • Integrated perl syntax checker
  • "Run in Terminal" command
  • Customizable "Preview-in-Browser" system
  • Document statistics
  • Control over tabbing
  • Auto-indent
  • Control over line breaks and encodings
  • Spell checker
  • Wrapped and unwrapped view modes
  • Shows line count and position
  • And more!
• Customizable look (colors, transparency, fonts)
• Mac OS X native interface utilizing sheets and following the Apple Human Interface Guidelines
• Its fast and efficient
• Very stable

Download:

- TextForge 2.0 (1776K, includes source code) Changelog
- TextForge 1.6.4 (260K) Changelog

Acknowledgements

TextForge's icons were made by Mark Degg. Check out his website.

TextForge 1.0-1.6.4 was developed by Josh Aas. Version 2.0 and further development by Christian Haberstroh.