Smultron


Smultron is a text editor for macOS that is designed for both beginners and advanced users. It was originally published as open-source but is now sold through the Mac App Store. It is written in Objective-C using the Cocoa API, and is able to edit and save many different file types. Smultron also includes syntax highlighting with support for many popular programming languages including C, C++, LISP, Java, Python, PHP, Ruby, HTML, XML, CSS, Prolog, IDL and D.
Smultron is the Swedish word for woodland strawberry.

Features

Smultron has many syntax highlighting and text encoding options. It can be helpful in the quick creation of websites, and allows the user to utilize and customize shortcuts for quick coding implementations, snippets and file organization. Other features include split file view, line wrapping, incremental search, a command line utility, line numbers, and an HTML preview. There is localization support for Swedish, Chinese, English, Czech, French, Hungarian, Finnish, German, Japanese, Dutch, Italian, and Spanish.

History

Created and developed by Swedish programmer Peter Borg, it was first seen registered on Sourceforge in May 2004, and had received much support and feedback from the Mac open-source community. The name of the application is derived from the common Swedish woodland strawberry, hence the application icon. Lingon, another program developed by Borg, is named after another common Scandinavian berry. As of July 31, 2009, Borg has announced that he would no longer be developing Smultron, however active development was later resumed after a hiatus.
On September 12, 2009, Borg announced a new version 3.6beta1 to fix bugs introduced with Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard. He also said he would not be releasing "any more versions for the foreseeable future."
In 2010 a fork named “” was introduced, authored by programmer Jean-Francois Moy and named after the French word for “Strawberry”. Also open source, this fork offered 64-bit support in Snow Leopard, an auto-update mechanism, duplicate line detection, and other features. There will not be any further updates to this branch of development, and as of macOS Sierra the app will no longer open; a new fork of Fraise in 2016, named "", authored by programmer Andeas Bentele, offers compatibility with macOS Sierra and newer releases.
On January 6, 2011, version 3.8 of Smultron was published by Peter Borg in the Mac App Store as a paid app for OS X 10.6-10.8. Eventually separate versions 6, 7 and 8 were released on the App Store. Added features include iCloud support in Smultron 6, better contextual menus in Smultron 7 and support for native OS X tabs in Smultron 8. Syntax highlighting has been updated in each version to include more languages:
By Smultron 8, over 120 languages are supported.