All Forces

Let’s face it, Mac applications are cool. Even when the task is as geeky as editing html files by hand, we do it with style. There are many apps out there that do this job on the Mac, and I will probably be in the eternal hunt for the perfect one, but for now skEdit is probably the closest I’ve gotten to it. I must admit, I do end up launching TextWarngler for the occasional trip to edit hidden files or to edit actionscript files but for the most part I use skEdit for all my PHP/HTML/CSS editing.

I’ve been enjoying beta testing the new version for a whie and I’m happy to share that it is finally out and it’s a sweet update. Some of my personal favorite features include code completion, hinting and highlighting (extremely useful for css), html tidy integration, snippets (on steroids), code navigation(customizable through regular expression), user scripts, integrated ftp/sftp/webdav and site view. And let’s not forget the option to edit using Lucida Grande instead of Courier. Fixed width fonts, although practical for editing, cramp my style.

skEdit is the brain child of Sean Kelly, a computer science student who was lucky enough to intern at Apple last summer. So go give skEdit a try and give Sean some love.

Link: skti.org