Awesome Free Apps
Section: Text Editors · Text editor with syntax highlighting, snippets, and regular expression search. 🍎 🟢
FreshScore 89
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CotEditor
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Text editor with syntax highlighting, snippets, and regular expression search. 🍎 🟢
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Awesome Mac
Section: Text Editors · Lightweight plain-text editor for macOS.
FreshScore 94
Awesome MacOS
Section: Editors · Lightweight plain-text editor for macOS.
FreshScore 85
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Section: Text Editors · Lightweight plain-text editor. Free Open Source
FreshScore 85
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