A trial version is available from several download sites, while the full licensed version of Notepad for Mac will cost you $20.
MAC NOTEPAD FOR MAC OS
You're going to have to pay for a full version again come the next upgrade and there's just something too clean about a text editor that Apple have sanctioned into the App Store.Notepad for Mac is a note-taking app for Mac OS X. I'm also suspicious of text editors on the App Store.
I used TextWrangler for an afternoon and really did not enjoy the experience: it was enough to put me off the idea of BBEdit. And please pay for it: $70 will hardly break the bank and you'll use it for years. ST's package installer is nothing short of excellent and building snippets is far easier than creating bundles in TM3 (it was better in TM2). For me, it made more sense to make the move to the more up-to-date Sublime Text than it did to rework what I had in TM2 into TM3.
TextMate 2 is the better build, but it lacks a lot of the benefits you'd want on an applications on Yosemite, such as full screen to name the most obvious TM3 isn't as intuitive as TM2 (I really missed the New from Template menu option, having built loads of my own templates). I was a big fan of TextMate, but as others have mentioned, it's been stuck in a quagmire of development dead ends for more than two years and it's just not the editor it was. If you're a new Mac user and you're on Yosemite, go straight to Sublime Text 2: it's excellent, still updated, and, once your get your head around snippets (the work of minutes), you'll have a great workflow in place. This subreddit is not endorsed or sponsored by Apple Inc. If you'd like to view their content together, click here. This fundamental difference in audience is why we support two communities, r/Apple and r/AppleHelp. Apple SubredditsĬontent which benefits the community (news, rumors, and discussions) is valued over content which benefits only the individual (technical questions, help buying/selling, rants, etc.).