This is a humble programmer's text editor. To be honest, it's not a lot. It doesn't feature any fancy new innovations. It's simply a text editor, meant primarily for programmers.

So why does it exist? It exists to fit the needs of one particular programmer. For this programmer, Xcode is too clunky for small tasks or casual projects. Smultron 3 doesn't support any Lion features like versions, and Smultron 4 was the victim of a terrible new user interface. BBEdit is overpriced, doesn't support versions, and just doesn't "feel right". To put it simply, it exists because this one particular programmer wanted the perfect editor for him. And so he began creating it.

We aren't going to claim that this app has any more features than the others, or even that it's better. However, for this programmer, it's the right app for him. At the risk of being cliché, we'll leave you with this: CodeX probably isn't the right text editor for everyone, but it might just be the right text editor for you. Give it a try! The price may not always be this low.

CURRENT FEATURES:

Smultron 3-like document view
Xcode-like auto-indenting
Firefox-like document shortcuts (Command + 1/2/3/etc to switch documents)
Autosaving and versions support (Optional: Turn it off if you don't like autosaving)
Enhanced find panel with regular expression matching
Fullscreen support
Resume support (Also optional)
Fully customizable themes
Syntax highlighting for several common languages (More coming soon)
Customizable syntax definitions

We have several more features in mind for future updates including refactoring, snippets, and more syntax definitions.

Send us an email if you have questions, suggestions, or comments!