Smultron
By Peter Borg Apps AB
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Description
(If you are using OS X Lion 10.7 you can buy the updated Smultron 4 instead with many new Lion-features.)
With Smultron you can easily write and edit text. It is a text editor for the rest of us which is both easy to use, elegant and very powerful.
Uses
• Do you ever quickly want to just write down some text without worrying about formatting?
• Do you ever want to quickly look at text in many different documents?
• Do you ever want to edit or create a web page?
• Do you ever need to write or change a script?
• Do you ever quickly want to write down a to do list?
• Do you ever want to find and change portions of your text in multiple documents?
Smultron can do all this for you and much, much more
Simple
• Smultron does not complicate your experience and you can directly start to write or edit text
• It colors the content in different colors depending on what your text does
• You have all your open documents easily accessible in a list to your left with icons which shows the content
Powerful
• For the more advanced users Smultron is a fully featured text editor
• It can find all those system files that are normally hidden and it has authenticated open and saves for them
• Smultron can also use regular expressions
• You can run commands and scripts and insert the result
• You can also have snippets of code readily available when you need it
• There is also full support for all text encodings and you can also preview HTML-documents directly
• It can also show line numbers and split the window so that you can see two different parts of a document at once
What's New in Version 3.8.4
• Is generally slightly faster
• Uses slighty less memory
• Fixed an issue with the default preview font size
• Added setting for default preview font size
• Improved Prolog syntax definition (thanks to Nico Rotstein)
• Some other small changes
Screenshots
Customer Reviews
Not Worth the Money
It was one thing to start charging for an app that used to be free, I can understand that, but it's a completely different thing to start charging for updates to the software after you've already paid, which is exactly what they've done with the Smultron 4 version. For an app that has been in the app store for 6 months or less, it is completely shady to charge people and then charge them again for a version update. Don't waste your money unless you want to continue to pay for the app every 6 months.
Releases simple updates as a new app
I've enjoyed Smultron and the open-source spinoff, Fraise, for a long time, so when it came to the Mac App Store I was more than happy to throw $5 to the developer, and was happy to see Smultron being developed again. Now, though, after a few minor updates to this app, he's released a new app called "Smultron 4" for another $5.
I would have been fine with this - one pre-Lion version and one for Lion - but all development seems to have stopped on this version. I won't be updating to "Smultron 4".
What is the developer thinking?
I had previously given this a 5 star review . . . However, I'm revoking that and giving it the lowest review I can. I've used Smultron for many years, but the developer has really dropped the ball. If you upgrade to OS X Lion, to get any Lion features you have to pay $5 for a different version. Not only do you have to pay for every upgrade, but Smultron 4 for Lion is actually much, much worse than this version and the previous versions.
Just stay away.
- $4.99
- Category: Utilities
- Updated: Jun 01, 2011
- Version: 3.8.4
- Size: 2.3 MB
- Languages: English, Swedish
- Seller: Peter Borg Apps AB
- © 2004-2011 Peter Borg
Requirements: OS X 10.6 or later
