Rixedit Text and only text.

Hearing the words 'a simple text editor' or 'a TextEdit replacement' should send anyone around the bend, regardless of platform; but for once, the epithets are correct: Rixedit's executable is under 26 KB (26332 bytes), so you'll most likely finish editing your file before those 'simple text editors' finish launching.

It is no-nonsense with no frills, does text and no more, and does it well.

Text And Only Text

Rixedit is about text and only text: no matter the internal file format, files come up in their plain text form. You can't drop an HTML file on TextEdit's dock icon and always expect to see the HTML code; with Rixedit you can - and do.

Clean As You Go

Rixedit's cleaning functions make sure your text file is Unix-compatible and rid of all unnecessary white space, going a lot farther than the seldom-used functionality of the Cocoa frameworks.

Go Where You Wanna Go

TextEdit won't let you get beyond file packages; with Rixedit you can go anywhere you want to find files to open, or find directories to save them in.

Rollback: The Forgiveness Principle

Unlike TextEdit, Rixedit preserves its undo/redo buffer beyond file saves, meaning you can at last test your file without worrying that you can't go back if the changes don't work out.

Cool Stuff, Important Stuff

Rixedit also jumps to line numbers, changes case, joins lines, cleans white space - something extremely welcome to developers running Project Builder and Xcode - and converts all CRLFs to the Unix format.

It will also let you not only save your file in a wide variety of text encodings as TextEdit, converting from Unicode to Non-Lossy ASCII and UTF-8 and the like, but actually see what encodings are in use.

100% Pure Cocoa

Rixedit has even more features, and being a full-fledged Cocoa application, these are often features TextEdit can't get at.

And it's still less (per CPU) than 34 KB on disk.

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