If you work in a Linux environment you know there is no shortage of text editors laying around. Same can be said about both Windows and OS X environments as well. Creating a text editor that is superior to ones already out there is a hard task for anyone, but the developers of the text editor Smultron sure are giving it a shot.

Smultron is an open-source text editor written in Cocoa for Mac OS X Panther with many of the features that you might need. It features easy selection of the opened documents, line numbers, support for syntax colouring for many different languages, support for text encodings, code snippets, a toolbar, a status bar, HTML preview, multi-document find and replace with regular expressions, possibility to show invisible characters, authenticated saves, command-line utility, .Mac synchronisation of preferences and many more features.