This page uses Creative Commons Licensed content from Wikipedia ( view authors). Click the file buttons next to Left and select the first document to compare, and then click the file button next to Right and select the second document you want to compare the first two, then click the Compare. TextWrangler is intended for use by programmers, web designers, and others who spend time reading and writing source code. Open BBEdit if you have not done so already, then pull down the Search menu and choose Find Differences. Like some other Mac editors, TextWrangler can read and save files in various encodings, including Unicode (various encodings), ASCII, Latin-1 and Latin-9. TextWrangler also provides numerous options for reformatting text.

Python, Perl, and shell scripts can be run directly in the program. TextWrangler's find and replace allows the use of regular expressions. But TextWrangler also includes extensive scripting support using AppleScript, Python, Perl, Shell scripts, and BBEdit's native Text Factories. TextWrangler has features common to most programming text editors, such as syntax highlighting for various programming languages, a find and replace function, spell check, and file comparison. Like BBEdit, TextWrangler is not a word processor and so lacks formatting and style options - it is limited to editing and manipulation of plain text, but while this limits desktop publications, it allows for much greater power and flexibility editing text. It was originally a commercial product, but (beginning with version 2.0) has become the freeware alternative to their flagship editor, BBEdit, and the successor to their previous freeware editor, BBEdit Lite. TextWrangler is a text editor for Mac OS X from Bare Bones Software.

Bbedit alternative for mac