That's it for Smultron

Of the free text editors available for the Mac, Smultron certainly ranks as one of the best. So it was sad to see this note on the developer’s site:

Hi!
First of all I’d like to thank you for your interest in my applications. But I have now come to a point where I don’t have the time to spend on the applications that they deserve so I have decided to not release any more versions for the foreseeable future.
Cheers,
Peter Borg

All is not completely lost, as a download is still available.

Rob Griffiths over at Macworld was particularly fond of Smultron, and asks readers to suggest a good replacement for the inevitable day when the app no longer works. It may, for example, not be compatible with Snow Leopard.

We have several text-oriented programs in the thriftmac collection, but the one most suitable as a freeware replacement for Smultron would have to be TextWrangler.

What are your thoughts?

Update: The version being offered for download is 3.0.2. The version I have is 3.5. Not sure what’s going on with that — maybe it was a beta.

date posted Posted Wednesday, August 5, 2009 in

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  1. http://sourceforge.net/projects/smultron/files/smultron/3.5.1/Smultron-3.5.1.zip/download

    It’s there.

    CocoaMac

  2. Thanks for the tip.

    Mark

  3. 3.6b1 (Sat Sep 12 2009 20:56) is available. Looks like it is still being developed. I sure like it, and hate to see it go away!

    MacGuru





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