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Not So Simple Text BBEdit from Bare Bones Software (barebones.com) is the Swiss Army knife of text editing for the Mac and can do more than most users will ever need. But does things that nearly anyone who has some serious work to do with text files depend on: advanced searching (even across a folder of files), conversion, serving as a lightweight development environment for scripters and programmers. It can even be used as an editor within the Terminal. If you’re more than a casual user of the Mac, it’s something that you need in your arsenal of utilities. One other thing that we deeply respect about it. For quite a few years, Bare Bones offered a totally free but quite capable entry-level text editor called TextWranger. It wasn’t for programmers, but if you needed to clean up files moving between Macs and Windows or knock out a quick shell script, it was perfect. Hearing that it was discontinued was heartbreaking for many of us. But how BareBones handled it was extraordinarily generous. They released a “demo” version of BBEdit that offered its full suite of functionality free for 30 days. After that, it reverted to a lite version that did everything TextWranger could and a lot more. To keep teasing you, every time an update was released–you got the full feature set again for another 30 days. To be honest, though I’m more of a script-kiddie than a programmer, I eventually bought the full version out of gratitude for such a great app.