Free source text software for mac

indexer is a free and open source Python based library providing an abstraction for full text index in different RDBMS, using when possible native capabilities of the DBMS.

System requirements:
- Python

Fire Effect is a REALbasic source code example for live animation of flaming text. Various controls over the rendering process are provided.
System requirements:
- REALbasic 5.5 or later.

nText is a simple, easy-to-use text editor specialized for development. nText is written in Java and should work on all platforms that have Java installed.

System requirements:
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Enhancements
- Added file filters to the JFilechooser. Click the All Files combobox to select one, ex. (java) Files.
- Either the code that set the highlighter mode according to the current file extension was broken. Either way, it updates the checkboxes in the Highlighter menu.
- Menu data is loaded from a text file (data/default.menu).

SOAP Client is a Cocoa-based developer application for Mac OS X Tiger that allows you to access and debug SOAP-based Web Services
Enhancements
? - View WSDL Source option (think view source in your browser, but for WSDL ;) ). This is accessible under the View menu or with the (Safari-esque) command-option-U keyboard command.
? - command-, now opens a small Preferences window with a setting for wrapped vs non-wrapped text in all raw source text views (SOAP Request, SOAP Response, and WSDL Source).

Minimum Profit is a free and open source text editor created for programmers.

Main features:
- Fully scriptable using a C-like scripting language.
- Unlimited undo levels.
- Complete Unicode support.
- Multiple files can be edited at the same time and blocks copied and pasted among them.
- Syntax highlighting for many popular languages / file formats: C, C++, Perl, Shell Scripts, Ruby, Php, Python, HTML...
- Creative use of tags: tags created by the external utility ctags are used to move instantaneously to functions or variables inside your current source tree. Tags are visually highlighted (underlined), and symbol completion can be triggered to avoid typing your own function names over and over.
- Intelligent help system: pressing F1 over any word of a text being edited triggers the underlying system help (calling man when editing C or Shell files, perldoc with Perl, ri on Ruby, winhelp on MS Windows...).
- Understandable interface: drop-down menus, reasonable default key bindings.
- Configurable keys, menus and colors.
- Text templates can be easily defined / accessed.
- Multiplatform: Console/curses, KDE4, GTK+, MS Windows.
- Automatic indentation, word wrapping, internal grep, learning / repeating functions.
- Spellchecking support (via the ispell package).
- Multilingual.
- Password-protected, encrypted text files (using the ARCFOUR algorithm).
- It helps you abandon vi, emacs and other six-legged freaks definitely.

Text wallet is a simple panel for storing and recalling to the clipboard frequently used text strings, just write to permanently store to disk, just touch text field for auto-copying text to the clipboard -ready to paste. Text strings may be multi-line.
Main features:
- Add as many fields as you need by clicking top button
- Texts can be complex, including multi-line texts
- Recall and auto-copy to clipboard text strings simply by clicking on a text field, or giving it focus, or typing into text field
- Double click on text field to paste
- Remove text fields by clicking "x" button near unwanted field
- To paste a text in a new field ot text wallet, copy the text from it source and then push top button, the text will be auto-pasted
- Text wallet auto-collapse to bar, auto-expand when mouse enters
- Application will auto-save all entries when you quit.
Enhancements:
- Universal Binary

Features:Colorizes text into a rainbow(s) for the default saturation and brightness and starting hue.

Built-in text Service for Rainbow Text allows text from other Cocoa applications to be colorized.Applescript support.