macfidelity

….seems like we DO need more text-editors in mac-land   so there is the next:

ForgEdit

So if you dont like TextWrangler, TextMate, Smultron, Text Edit …….check that one out.

Quote from the project page:

Great features for powerful developers

ForgEdit is a full featured programmers text editor for OS X. Designed for ease of use, it may look “simple” at first glance. But dig into ForgEdit to discover some unusual and powerful features:

• Shortcuts to everything (like New Tab, or Go To End of Line). Easy to modify.
• Modes that define file type behaviour. Easy to modify or add new.
• AppleScriptable. Extensible applescript support.
• Script menu/Stock scripts.
• Tabbed Editing.
• File Drawer for easy access to local and remote files.
• FTP/SFTP support.
• Find/Find In Files, with full regular expression support.
• Bookmarks — file, window or session.
• ODB external editor support.
• Tab Key Indents Selection.
• Match brace while typing.
• Command-line tool for use with svn/cvs, etc.
• Built-in help.

Feature overview

Screenshots  

Did you ever think about adding custom configuration files to launchd ?

If yes, the usual way was creating custom files by hand or better the Property List Editor out of Apples Developer tool set.

Peter Bork, the author of Smultron, has written a nice graphical interface for launchd called Lingon.

Lets quote himself:

Lingon is a graphical interface for creating launchd configuration files and controlling them through launchctl for Mac OS X Tiger. (launchd is a system daemon that is used to run scripts/programs automatically, repeatedly or at certain times.) You get all your launchd configuration files listed in a table so you easily can see which are loaded and what they do, and you can also load and unload any easily. If you want to create or edit a launchd configuration file you can do that in Lingon through an assistant or in an easy graphical way (or through an built-in text editor, should you want to).

Screenshot from the project page:

I tested Lingon the first time, as i needed to start a MAMP-Server by login of a specific user. The free version of MAMP doenst NOT support any service mode by default, but that is another topic.

It was really easy to start the needed MySQL-Database and Apache-Webserver using 2 single entries in launchd via Lingon.

From my point of view, another wonderful free application, get it

Best regards

fidel