[TxMt] Re: Best iPad Text Editor for Textmate Users

[Charles McKnight]

I've used Elements which is built on top of Dropbox. It works with plain text files although it's pretty bare bones. 

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On Jan 9, 2011, at 8:19 AM, Owen Densmore <owen at backspaces.net> wrote:

>> You didn't mention what sort of stuff you would be writing. But for simple note taking I like PlainText:
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>> http://www.hogbaysoftware.com/products/plaintext
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>> It syncs with Dropbox and creates plain text files that can be edited in TextMate.
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> Mainly note taking, although the files have gotten rather large .. need to toss the cruft!
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> The high order bit is that the editor work well with textmate. I think that means utf8 & LF and no hidden metadata.  So I'll give PlainText a shot.
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> While looking at the iPad text editors, I saw Markdown mentioned.  I hadn't really considered it before, but it looks like a nice way to structure text files with the least intrusion possible.  I may give it a shot, and I noticed TextMate has a plugin.
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>    -- Owen
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