[restes]

>formerly TextEdit IIRC

TextWrangler. TextEdit is the editor built in to macOS.

[Someone]

And TextWrangler formerly was BBEdit Lite (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBEdit#Freeware_versions)

[jtbayly]

And now there’s just BBEdit, which is free, but has some features turned off unless you pay. I use the free version, and it is powerful!

[paulryanrogers]

Something ironic about a "bare bones" editor getting a 'lite' edition.

[mattl]

TextEdit is similarly old to BBEdit, just a little younger—- shipping with OPENSTEP in 1996.

[bombcar]

That’s the one!