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As I have been working on my programming projects, I have found a need for text editors that color the syntax. This not only makes it easy to identify what I am looking at, but colored text helps me to keep my source code in a clean, formatted, and easy to read form.

Using OS X, there are several different options. BBedit is one well known program, or the free version textwrangler. While both programs are nice, I just need some thing simple and easy to use. After trying a few different apps, I came across Smultron, by Peter Borg.

It has a simple interface, yet has language localizations, support for many different scripting and programming languages, unicode support and many other features. Best of all, unlike other text editors for programming, Smultron has a small memory footprint.

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