BBEdit

BBEdit is a professional-grade text and HTML editor exclusively developed for macOS, designed to meet the demanding requirements of writers, web authors, and software developers. It provides a comprehensive set of tools for editing, searching, and manipulating plain text, source code, and structured data — without relying on a subscription model. The editor supports syntax highlighting for dozens of programming and markup languages, including HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Python, Perl, Ruby, PHP, SQL, XML, Markdown, and many more. Its code folding feature allows users to collapse and expand sections of code for easier navigation through large files. The built-in multi-file search and replace engine uses regular expressions for pattern-based operations, and can search across entire project folders with results displayed in a sortable list. BBEdit includes a powerful grep tool that supports both basic and extended regular expression syntax, as well as a text factory feature for batch processing of multiple files — users can apply a sequence of transformations (such as find/replace, case changes, line sorting, and encoding conversion) to entire folders of text files. For web development, the editor offers real-time HTML validation, tag balancers, and a built-in Live Preview that renders HTML in Safari. It also provides tools for editing CSS, JavaScript, and other web assets, including a color picker, a hex code insertion tool, and auto-completion for common tags and attributes. BBEdit integrates with version control systems like Git, Subversion, and Perforce through its SCM support, enabling users to view diffs, commit changes, and manage repositories from within the editor. The application supports FTP, SFTP, and Amazon S3 protocols for remote file editing, allowing direct manip