[petercooper]

Oh nice. I forgot SubEthaEdit existed but it was first text editor on macOS before the TextMate hype in the early Rails days :-) While I support the right to release commercial products, I think it's very noble to open source things after a certain time, if only for the purpose of history and preservation.

[tlrobinson]

BBEdit was probably the first editor for Mac OS X, though SubEthaEdit may have been first one native to OS X.

[mrpippy]

BBEdit dates back to 1992, and I believe Tex-Edit is even older. CodeWarrior and BBEdit were both Carbonized for OS X very early (because developers needed them for bringing up other apps). I don't remember SubEthaEdit coming out until at least 10.2 (ISTR it had a different name for first release also)

[petercooper]

You're right. I went back and it appears I missed out the word "my" in "it was first text editor" without noticing :-D

[zem]

every time i see an old commercial editor get open sourced, i feel a moment of sadness that [aurora](http://www-personal.umich.edu/~knassen/aurora.html) never went that route.