When comparing RJ TextEd vs TextMate, the Slant community recommends TextMate for most people. In the question“What are the best programming text editors?” TextMate is ranked 23rd while RJ TextEd is ranked 59th. The most important reason people chose TextMate is:
Textmate is open source and hosted on [GitHub](https://github.com/textmate/textmate).
Specs
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Pros
Pro Very powerful web (PHP, ASP, JavaScript, HTML and CSS) development editor.
The functionality extends beyond text files and includes support for CSS/HTML editing with integrated CSS/HTML preview, spell checking, auto completion, HTML validation, templates and more.
Pro Full-featured
RJ TextEd is a full-featured portable text editor with code auto-completion, syntaxt highlighting, spell checker, auto indentation, and much more.
Pro Freeware
RJ TextEd is released as freeware.
Pro Open source
Textmate is open source and hosted on GitHub.
Pro Extensible
TextMate has an extensive library of plugins which can be further extended to make it even more powerful.
Pro Lightweight footprint
It's lightweight footprint makes it extremely fast to load and use.
Pro Multi line select and editing
Pro Snippets
Pro OS X only (native)
Cons
Con Windows only
Only the Windows version of RJ TextEd is available.
Con OS X only
TextMate is for OSX only.