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Get Plain Text is a practical utility program to process text within Mac OS: It converts copied text into plain text.
Get Plain Text will convert any bit of text into plain text, no matter where you copied it from (a website, PDF document or elsewhere). You can activate the feature manually, or check “Automatically remove formatting” to make the app take care of it every time you copy something.
Via @danvpeterson
Vim customized to be like SublimeText
If used with MacVim you will get SublimeText-like features with the same shortcuts without installing or compiling any external library…
GNU GLOBAL is a source code tagging system that works the same way across diverse environments (emacs, vi, less, bash, web browser, etc). You can locate symbols in source files and move there easily.
It is useful for hacking a large project containing many sub-directories, many
#ifdefand manymain()functions. It is similar to ctags or etags but is different from them at the point of independence of any editor. It runs on a UNIX(POSIX) compatible operating system like GNU and BSD.
VisualAck is like grep (or ack), except faster and with UI. For Mac.
Glark searches files for regular expressions.
Similar to grep, glark supports Perl-compatible regular expressions, color highlighting of matches, and context around matches.
Glark extends grep by matching complex expressions, such as “and”, “or”, and “xor”.
Notepad2, a fast and light-weight Notepad-like text editor with syntax highlighting. This program can be run out of the box without installation, and does not touch your system’s registry.
Via Egg Freckles.
A web-based Markdown editor with live preview, format conversion, easy document sharing and integration with Dropbox or Evernote for storage and synchronisation.
Pattern Digger finds and maintains a list of special annotations in source code or any other text file. It helps you to get a global overview of the remaining tasks, a summary of what need to be done in a file or project.
dex is a small and easy to use text editor. Colors and bindings can be fully customized for your likings.
It has some features useful to programmers, like ctags support and it can parse compiler errors. But it does not aim to become an IDE.
The only dependency is libc, no curses or any other libraries are required.
Via Inconsolation
FlyLatex is a real-time collaborative environment for LaTeX built in nodejs. It includes a beautiful LaTeX ACE Editor and a PDF renderer.
TaskAgent is a simple to-do list manager that saves its lists as plain text files. While Dropbox syncing is optional, the benefit is that you can edit your lists from outside the app using your favorite text editor and then sync any changes back into the app.
Install the Marksy Chrome Extension to translate between your favorite web markup languages, such as Textile, Markdown, RST, MediaWiki and more. Non-Chrome browsers can use our online version.
CriticMarkup is a way for authors and editors to track changes to documents in plain text. As with Markdown, small groups of distinctive characters allow you to highlight insertions, deletions, substitutions and comments, all without the overhead of heavy, proprietary office suites.
As well as a command line preprocessor, the CriticMarkup toolkit includes TextExpander snippets, Keyboard Maestro macros, OS X Services, plugins for BBEdit and Sublime Text, &c.
