Subethaedit

The text editor SubEthaEdit (proper spelling SubEthaEdit ) is a program for the Mac, is made possible with the collaborative writing.

By using the Bonjour protocol SubEthaEdit recognizes all users on the local subnet and can be used without any configuration. In order to work together, you can either enable or invite other available user via drag and drop in a local document a local document. The single text of each user is color-coded. So you can immediately see who wrote what. A technical limitation of the number of users that can work on a document at the same time, there is not.

SubEthaEdit provides numerous useful for programmers and developers of web pages features such as syntax highlighting, search / replace with regular expressions, navigation in the text by symbols, auto indentation, auto complete and Unicode. Are supported in the basic version, more than 25 languages ​​; for over 50 additional modules are available.

The editor works on interfaces with numerous programs together, such as for file transfer (including various FTP programs ) and thereby enables easy manipulation of files that are placed on servers. SubEthaEdit is also suitable for the Xcode development environment.

SubEthaEdit is currently the operating system Mac OS X available only for the English or German versions as well as in numerous other languages. So far for non-commercial users free of charge to the editor from version 2.3 is no longer freely available for private use.

The name goes back to the Sub - Etha communication network from the Per- pickup - by - the - galaxy series.

The program was honored in 2003 with the Apple Design Award and the Mac OS X Innovators Award.

In addition to the actual program, developers are offering their engine for collaborative writing for other developers. Subetha the engine is used for example in the web development Coda the U.S. company Panic.