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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.

Smultron is an open source text editor for programmers that comes with a few interesting features, among them: syntax highlighting in several languages and the autocomplete function. The viewing of documents is another of Smultron’s strengths. With it, you can view a document on full-screen, split the editor into two parts, or view it separately. Meet Your Skulpt Again. Discover the new face of this little beast. We’ve created a sound pack that will change the way you’ve looked at Modal Skulpt. From today, this tiny, toy-like synthesizer will sound Big and Powerful in your hands.

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3. I would like to keep smultron in it. If you have an idea, contact me ^^ Changelog: 3.7.1. New Feature String search in all files contained in the parent directory of the current document. New Feature Duplicate Line. New Feature Auto Update. Translation Correction of the French translation of SMLMainMenu.xib. Bug correction.

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 (simplified and traditional), English, Czech, French, Hungarian, Finnish, German, Japanese, Dutch, Italian, and Spanish.

History[edit]

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.^[1] 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,^[2] 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.'^[3]

In 2010 a fork named “Fraise” was introduced, authored by programmer Jean-Francois Moy and named after the French word for “Strawberry”.^[4] Also open source, this fork offered 64-bit support in Snow Leopard (but no support for OS X 10.5), an auto-update mechanism, duplicate line detection, and other features. There will not be any further updates to this branch of development,^[5] and as of macOS Sierra the app will no longer open; a new fork of Fraise in 2016, named 'Erbele', authored by programmer Andreas Bentele (Erbele is the Swabian (a German dialect) word for 'strawberry'), 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 (for OS X 10.9, 10.10, and 10.11 respectively) were released on the App Store. Added features include iCloud support in Smultron 6,^[6] better contextual menus in Smultron 7^[7] and support for native OS X tabs in Smultron 8.^[8] Syntax highlighting has been updated in each version to include more languages:

• SASS / SCSS, Groovy, Go, Make and YAML in Smultron 6
• Arduino, Clojure, Final Cut Pro XML, Fountain, Hack, Notation 3, Processing, Rust, Strings, Swift, Turtle, XLIFF, XQuery and Zimbu in Smultron 7
• LESS, MathProg, Nim and Smalltalk in Smultron 8

By Smultron 8, over 120 languages are supported.

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References[edit]

1. ^MacUser.com, Giles Turnbull. 'Product Reviews: Smultron'. Archived from the original on October 12, 2007. Retrieved 2007-02-04.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
2. ^Peter Borg. 'Smultron'. Retrieved 2009-08-01.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
3. ^Peter Borg. 'Smultron'. Retrieved 2009-09-30.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
4. ^jfmoy. 'Fraise'. Retrieved 2010-03-30.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
5. ^'Fraise Powerful Lightweight Editor for Mac'. Archived from the original on May 18, 2010. Retrieved April 25, 2017.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
6. ^'Smultron 6 on the Mac App Store'. Mac App Store. Retrieved 2016-08-17.
7. ^'Smultron 7 on the Mac App Store'. Mac App Store. Retrieved 2016-08-17.
8. ^'Smultron 8 on the Mac App Store'. Mac App Store. Retrieved 2016-08-17.

External links[edit]

• Smultron on SourceForge.net
• Fraise on GitHub
• Erbele on GitHub

Sometimes, you should be careful what you wish for. Developers often say that they want their coding environment to be as simple and clean as possible. They want the minimum of features, just a place to write their own lines without the interference of a smart program that thinks it knows code better than they do.

That’s what they say they want, until they get it. Smultron delivers exactly that stripped-down, basic coding service. Instead of packing the coding environment with features designed to put all the tools a developer might use within easy reach, Smultron throws away the tools and gives coders a sheet of paper.

You get auto-save, which is nice. Syntax colors are available for a huge number of code languages, regular expressions, commands, text snippets, and other elements. A Compare feature found in a Tools menu lets you bring up two open documents with changes marked and little symbols indicating whether a line has been added, deleted or changed. Viewing can be simplified by folding up text you don’t want to see. Another feature included in the program provides snippets of frequently-used text to be added with ease. Or at least relative ease, because code replacement is conducted by including a %%s in the text while a %%c will put the cursor after the snippet. It’s not intuitive. Even the close tag feature, a basic element to minimize errors in other text editors, only closes tags surrounded by < and >, and struggles to find the right tag to close.

While other text editors build in FTP tabs for easy uploading, Smultron settles for support for document storage in iCloud. There is at least a preview feature and users can choose whether to open the page in the program or choose a separate app. Smultron will also run commands and can insert the result into the text. But again, it’s not intuitive. You will need to include some unique codes to obtain the full path of the directory or the document or to replace the text with a path to a temporary file or to a writeable temporary directory.

The learning curve is short: there just aren’t enough additional commands to make the learning too onerous but Smultron does demand an effort from the user that might make them wonder whether it’s worth making.
Many developers will find those missing features and unusual commands more irritating than helpful. But at $10 from the Mac App Store or the same price in the Smultron store which also offers a cheaper upgrade and a more expensive site license, the program is very affordable.

Conclusion

Smultron is a budget text editor with the minimum of features. Even developers who want a simple environment may find its usability annoying however.

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