Text editor software for mac

[Omaar]

Hello to all,
I recently bought a cool new Macbook pro which has Mac OS X installed in it. I want some small text editor software for mac, so that I can edit big files very easily. Which must be similar to notepad in the windows xp. If anyone anything about them please help me.
Thank you.

[Eric B]

You have to use Bean for your mac. Bean is a small, easy-to-use word processor (or more precisely, a rich text editor), designed to make writing convenient, efficient and comfortable. Bean is Open Source, fully Cocoa, and is available free of charge! MS Word, OpenOffice, etc. try to be all things to all people. But sometimes you just want the right tool for the job. That is Bean's niche.

[Glenny]

BBEdit is the leading professional HTML and text editor for the Macintosh. Specifically crafted in response to the needs of Web authors and software developers, this award-winning product provides an abundance of high-performance features for editing, searching, and manipulation of text. An intelligent interface provides easy access to BBEdit’s best-of-class features, including grep pattern matching, search and replace across multiple files (even unopened files on remote servers), project definition tools, function navigation and syntax coloring for numerous source code languages, code folding, FTP and SFTP open and save, AppleScript, Mac OS X Unix scripting support, text and code completion, and of course a complete set of robust HTML tools.

[JonathanD]

You have to use Mac Notepad for Mac OS X. Now you can store any piece of text right at your fingertips thanks to Mac Notepad, the new Mac OS X note pad program from Apimac. Mac Notepad is the “missing notepad application" you've been waiting for. You’ll never be at a loss for words again! It has following features.

• Brand new interface for best user experience.
• New Iconize Window.
• Assign a name to the notes by clicking in the side bar.
• Password protection feature.
• Align text feature.
• Easy Search feature.
• Regular Expression advanced search feature.

[Macarenas]

You must use Plain Clip for your mac. Plain Clip is a tiny Mac OS X application which will remove formatting from text which is on the clipboard. It's designed as a faceless application (i.e.: no graphical user interface, with the exception of the preferences window), which makes it ideal for triggering it from a hotkey / launcher applications such as “Spark” or “LaunchBar”. For users of such tools, Plain Clip offers a way to invoke it with a shell command, which makes it possible to emulate a “Cmd-V” / “Paste” keyboard shortcut after the clipboard’s content has been converted.

[ThoMas321]

You must use TextMate for your mac. TextMate brings Apple's approach to operating systems into the world of text editors. By bridging UNIX underpinnings and GUI, TextMate cherry-picks the best of both worlds to the benefit of expert scripters and novice users alike. Whether you are a programmer or a designer, the production of code and markup is hard work. Without an editor dedicated to the task, it is also often cumbersome, overwhelming, and repetitive. Especially when you are dealing with a lot of files at once — like most projects do. TextMate puts you back in control, reduces the mental overhead, and turns manual work into something the computer does.