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I wonder that there seems to be no text editor on the mac installed that is capable of saving just text without any formatting. Which text-only editors do you know that allow for editing text without any formatting like font sizes etc.?

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msimsi
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emacs, vim, nano

Mac OS X TextEdit supports editing text files without formatting.

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If you install and use either of Vim or Emacs, you will have a text editor that can be used on any major platform now and in the future, and most of the minor ones too.

As a bonus, they are both very well supported, very powerful, and (not surprisingly) have existing, rich support for just about any kind of text editing you might want to do (and even the types you don't yet realise you want).

Of course, they both support creating plain text files by default.

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TextWrangler is the way to go if you want free, hands down.

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For free Maclike (for given values thereof) GUI ones, there's Komodo Edit, Smultron, TextWrangler.

From the Emacs variants, my personal favourite is Aquamacs, because it tries its darnedest to mitigate the OS X vs. Emacs impedance mismatch, and comes with some of the hairier packages preinstalled.

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It was a couple years ago, but I tried everything I could find for doing front-end editing (JS, XHTML, CSS, etc). I found Komodo to be the best, most comfortable, most intuitive. It's not perfect, but it was the closest I found.

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It sounds like you aren't aware that it's possible to save plain text files with TextEdit. While the default is RTF, you can go to Format > Make Plain Text to switch.

And of course Xcode will save plain text files, and let you control things like encoding and line endings.

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You probably would consider reading this http://hackresponsibly.com/the-best-text-code-editors-for-windows-mac-os-x-and-linux/

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I just recently switched from Windows and I must say that as much as I'm satisfied with the whole OS, I'm disappointed by the text editors so far (I've tried TextMate and BBEdit). So I figured I would check specifically into open source editors.

I'm currently checking out MacVim, but are there any other good, maintained text editors for OS X?

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There is Aquamacs that is a version of Emacs that has been customised to be more OSX like.

Apple supplies the source for TextEdit as an example with Xcode.

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emacs for osx is by far my favorite.

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But it depends a lot on what you edit. Netbeans and eclipse are both IDEs but have nice support for many kinds of files. Maybe also LibreOffice is worth checking out.

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TextWrangler is the “little brother” to BBEdit, leading professional HTML and text editor for the Macintosh.

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One of my favorite is a free one (where you can also donate for a fuller version) and it is also a beautifully designed/ distraction free editor: OmmWriter.

However the best thing possible if you are looking for something with the most functionality and the best compatibility cross-platform would be NeoOffice.

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It's not as functional as the version for Linux, but it is open source.Also, it tends to crash a lot in lion...

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This is the latest version of smultron which is open source. This version does not work on Lion!

The newer version of smultron is sold via the App Store and proprietary. Smultron 4 does work in lion.

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