TextForge 2.0 review

TextForge is a text editor for Mac OS X, written using the Cocoa API.

License: GPL OS: Mac OS X File size: 1775K Developer: Trance Software Price: $0.00 Updated: 09 Feb 2006

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TextForge is a text editor for Mac OS X, written using the Cocoa API. TextForge was built from scratch to provide a reliable, powerful, fast, efficient, and Mac OS X native solution for editing text documents.

Here are some key features of "TextForge":
Advance search and replace capabilities with full regular expression support
Integrated perl syntax checker
"Run in Terminal" command
Customizable "Preview-in-Browser" system
Document statistics
Control over tabbing
Auto-indent
Control over line breaks and encodings
Spell checker
Wrapped and unwrapped view modes
Shows line count and position
Customizable look (colors, transparency, fonts)
Mac OS X native interface utilizing sheets and following the Apple Human Interface Guidelines
Its fast and efficient
Very stable.

What's New:
Advance search and replace cabilities (integrated OgreKit framework)
New preference pane setup
TextForge is now Open Source / Free Software (GNU GPL)
New developer - Christian Haberstroh.