Open Source Objective C Text Editors

BibDesk is a graphical bibTeX bibliography manager for Mac OS X.

The AbiWord word processor is a full-featured cross-platform word processor.

MacDown is an open source Markdown editor for macOS, released under the MIT License. It is heavily influenced by Chen Luo’s Mou.

Powerful and customizable text editor with support for a huge list of programming languages and developed as open source. Making multiple changes at once, swapping pieces of code, and a lot more is made trivial with TextMate’s easy way to add multiple insertion points. Select what you want to search, what you want to search for, and TextMate will present the results in a way that makes it easy to jump between matches, extract matched text, or preview desired replacements. See what files have changes in the file browser view, what lines have changes in the editor view, bring up a diff of the current file’s changes, commit a subset, TextMate supports it all for all the major version control systems. One file mixing languages? Projects using different build systems? Third party code with different formatting preferences? TextMate can handle it all by associating detailed scope selectors with key shortcuts, settings, etc.

Smultron is a text editor written in Cocoa for Mac OS X Leopard 10.5 which is designed to be both easy to use and powerful.

An Objective-C Framework for Regular Expressions using the PCRE Library for Mac OS X Cocoa and GNUstep.

The project comprises numerous binaries, supporting 68k, Classic PPC, Carbon/Cocoa PPC and Cocoa on Intel. It supports dynamically loaded CFM or MachO plug-ins to edit resources, and is easily extendible by third parties.

HunSpell spell checker port to MacOSX.

A small Objective-C library which provides a SAX-like object-oriented interface to the Expat XML parser library.

1337writer is a converter for 'normal' text to 1337 / l33t text (leetspeech). simply input your text and the programm will output the 1337 version. (hardcore 1337 or simple 1337).

Alpaca is a programmable rich-text editor for authors using Mac OS X. It is built on, and programmable in, Common Lisp, and has a complete Common Lisp programming environment built into it.

AquaLess is a text pager for Mac OS X, intended as a drop-in replacement for the less command. It allows you to browse lengthy text output from Unix command line tools in a separate window, so you can keep working in the terminal while you read.

A blosxom weblog editor for Mac OS X, Blapp streamlines the blogging process with a convenient, native editing interface for blosxom weblogs. It presents a view of the weblog hierarchy with post titles, displays live-updating HTML preview in the editor, a

Block Art is a MacOSX application for viewing ASCII art graphics documents. It can open .nfo, .diz and .asc documents, and properly displays the contained ASCII art.

CC Mode is a GNU Emacs and XEmacs mode for editing C and other languages with similar syntax; currently C++, Objective-C, Java, CORBAs IDL, Pike, and AWK. It is a standard package in both GNU Emacs and XEmacs.

CleverRabbit is an editor for linguists and translators. It allows multiple revisions of the same passage to coexist for easy comparison during translation, backtranslation, and consultant checking.

A Cocoa port of Emacs for MacOS X and GNUstep

A Cocoa port of GNU Emacs for GNUstep and MacOS X.

Joust is a simple yet powerful HTML editor programmed for Mac OS X using Cocoa frameworks. Includes live previewing and helpful programming tools.

Kod is an open, modern text editor project for programmers on Mac OS X, built with the idea of being a versatile everyday tool for writing code and plain text. The project’s design philosophy emphasizes approachability and a relatively low barrier to entry, including UI concepts like tabs as a core part of the experience. Beyond being “yet another editor,” Kod aimed to explore how a programmer-oriented editor could feel more universal and user-friendly, especially for people who write code but don’t necessarily want an overly complex environment. The repository contains the full editor codebase and related components, but it is also clearly marked as an archived (read-only) project, indicating it’s no longer actively developed. Even so, it remains useful as a reference implementation for macOS editor architecture, UI/editor interaction patterns, and the tradeoffs involved in building a full desktop editor.

A simple, lightweight Journal/Diary application built around CoreData.

ObjPCRE is a thin PCRE wrapper written in 100% Objective-C/C. Built around the foundation of NSObjects, it can be easily implemented into any Cocoa or iPhone application.

This project has been moved to https://github.com/lukhnos/openvanilla/

This is a project to create a native cocoa Programmers Text Editor, code named Oscar. This goal of this project is to create a full blown Obj-C Text Editor that contains many of the features such as extensions and scriptability that BBEdit contains.

PIL is a substitution of Plist Editor which is shipped with Mac OS X. PIL supports copy/paste, search and better editting.