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This is a “powerful and fast text editor” both for iPad and Mac OS X. The iPad version has built-in SFTP support making it very useful for editing files on remote servers.

If you’re looking for a better text editor than TextEdit, I can strongly recommend Textastic. It’s available both for macOS and iOS, and I use it extensively to edit files on my Macintosh remotely. It remembers where files were downloaded from, making it easy to get the latest version and then update when done.

Add this to your .bash_profile to make it easy to edit files from the command-line:

alias textastic='open -a Textastic'

And if you want Textastic to open all your text files, such as when using “open -t” in the edit script, right-click any .txt file and assign it to Textastic instead of TextEdit.

You can do all of these, of course, with any text editor if you choose one of the many great ones available for macOS.