SubEthaEdit App Reviews
Great to see this app reborn!
This is my go-to text application when I need to troubleshoot a file or encoding issue. I’m excited to see what’s coming up in future updates.
I own a license to the previous version of SubEthaEdit; it was a great editor. When I used it, having one file per window was the way to go as most of the work I did was live-edited on a development server. Things have changed alot since then and now I’m used to being able to open an entire project within my editor and quickly change between files; this is one of the major features that SubEthaEdit is missing. The overall application doesn’t really look like anything of significance has changed since the previous version. I can’t really use any of the great themes that have come out in recent years (like solarized) and changing the editing fonts doesn’t quite work right. It may be able to collaborate just fine, but if it doesn’t excel at editing alone, it’s really hard to justify the expense. This is especially true since I need my team members and friends to also use the same editor for the colloborative editing to work at all. I would return this if I could and if I could have downloaded a demo I never would have purchased this to begin with. I expected just a little bit more to be worth the price.
As well as the unique collaboration features, SubEthaEdit is a great editor in its own right. It’s earned a place in my muscle memory (Edit text? Cmd-Space, then ’see’ in Spotlight). Well worth the price.
I’ve been using this editor for many years and am happy to see it back in active development. There’s a small bug when using regular expression search with windows line endings. It doesn’t count the r character as part of the line ending. So if you want to find all the lines ending in ‘a’ for instance, you would need to search for ‘ar$’ as opposed to ‘a$’ if the file uses windows line endings.
If you are looking for a text editor with very few bells and whistles, this is it. I live in a world where I regulary use three text editors and this is one of them. I have used SubEthaEdit since the time it was “free” and have paid for it a couple of times now. I do not use it for collboration, I use its Block Edit functionality. I can honestly say that the time this one feature has saved me over the years is well worth the money I spent. My one complaint about this product is the lack of documentation. I am sure that there are gems hidden under the covers, but frankly the documentation is non-existent.
cannot open UTF-8 encoded files.
It opens UTF-8 encoded files as UTF-16 encoded.
Nice
nice editor, great price, excellent privacy policy and open source. What's not to like?
2 stars since all the applescripting is broken still
I like your program for coding but when I'm spending my own time fixing your code and scripting because Apple did another mistake and browkn scripting with Monterey it kills my work performance. So basically when the "do shellscipt" for php syntax or running mode happens.. it returns with a sh: not permitted. bascialy the applescipt is trying to run and a user that can't funciton....
Outstanding lightweight editor
Low overhead, quick loading, clean UI, and a direct, lightweight text editor. Not Notes, not TextEdit, not (gaah) Pages or (spew) Word. There are many many many cases where all you need is a quick light editor. And there are plenty of cases where you might want to do some simple HTML or script altering without loading an entire web IDE. And there are plenty of apps that do those things, but this one loads fast, doesn't make a fuss of itself, and lets you get the job done quickly.
Decent editor with some unique features
SubEthaEdit's block edit feature is probably the biggest reason I keep using it. Being able to edit multiple lines comes in handy quite often. However, it cannot handle large files, even with coloring turned off, so I have another text editor I use for that. SubEthaEdit isn't a monolithic text editor for every job, but it has a nice place in my toolbox.
been using it for ages
If my memory serves me, I've been using this app on and off for a decade. At first I was using it when I was learning to code CSS, but when I left the tech world behind I still wanted a basic text editor that wouldn't do anything funny or "smart" or try to wrap lines or... you know how the Big Name Apps are. It's simple, and I love it.
You need this
SubEthaEdit is the gold standard for editing text on macOS. Love this app! <3
Nice and clean editor, missing column-mode
This is a very nice and clean editor that I like quite a bit. It's also fast. What's a bother is that it doesn't have good column mode editing. TextMate for example has an ingeniously intuitive column mode where you can simply option-select or mouse click select and then edit multiple lines at once, even when moving to the end of the line to keep editing. SubEthaEdit is trying that but its block mode isn't working well at all. I sincerely hope that the developers can iron out those quirks and also give it better brace/parenthesis/bracket matching.
Long Live SubEthaEdit
I've been using SEE for ages and was a little disappointed when I saw that it had become a free application, assuming the Developer would let it die. That MOST DEFINITELY does not seem to be the case. This is one of my favorite tools for development when a full-featured IDE is a bit too much and is my preferred native MacOS text to editor. Seeing it in the list of recently updated applications today and reading the patch notes brought a big smile to my face knowing that SEE is not dead. Thank you!
Great product, but there’s a bug in this version
I’ve been using this editor for many years and am happy to see it back in active development. (Edit 2019/10/16: Removed small bug report that I can no longer replicate.)
Would like more extentions
Looks good an runs smooth PLEASE create an editor for R...
Best 64-bit code editor
It's not quite Text Wrangler ... but then, Text Wrangler is going to stop working under the next MacOS. IMO this is by far the best alternative code editor that WILL continue working and so deserves my five stars.
Doesn't work
Crashes within moments of trying to open. I'll change my review If there is an update that fixes the problems I'm having with it. I'll also consider changing the review if I can just figure out what is making it crash.
Excellent light editor
It is the perfect lightweight alternate to my main IDE. Block Edit functionality is excellent. Simultaneously view/edit different portions of the same file in split screen or separate windows (SHIFT CMD N). Effective search and replace. Change language syntax highlighting, file line endings and character encodings directly on the footer status bar. Collaborative editing is nice to have, though rarely used.
Single Purpose Tool
If you are looking for a text editor with very few bells and whistles, this is it. I live in a world where I regulary use three text editors and this is one of them. I have used SubEthaEdit since the time it was “free” and have paid for it a couple of times now. I do not use it for collboration, I use its Block Edit functionality. I can honestly say that the time this one feature has saved me over the years is well worth the money I spent. My one complaint about this product is the lack of documentation. I am sure that there are gems hidden under the covers, but frankly the documentation is non-existent.