I'm a screenwriter, essayist and poet and I've been looking for an editor that would allow me to write in all of these forms. I prefer markup languages over WYSIWYG simply because I don't want to be distracted what WYSISYG GUI editors offer. (The bloat and kitchen sink philosophy of MS Word makes gives me night-horrors. Not to mention, who hasn't fought tooth and knife with a what-you-see-is-what-you-get editor because it sounded more like a threat than a promise? No, I don't want that word italicized you _useless waste of a handful of sand_--the emphasis stops **here**.) I've used LaTeX for years for prose but it is not ideal for screenwriting or poetry. Both are too fiddly if you're formatting while writing (and don't have an assistant to code your formatting for you later). Fountain is the best markup language screenwriting and works well for poetry and prose. Presently the Highland app is buggy and not ideal (also going up in price). For these reasons, I've been exploring different text editing solutions over the last few months. I waded into the Emacs and Spacemacs ecosystem because I was told there was a large community. There is. But they are also a huge distraction for a writer who just wants to write. The vanilla versions of those programmes are also pretty unusable. And kludgey. I suspect that part of the reason people don't shut up about their Emacs configurations is what economists call the _sunk cost fallacy_. 'I've put years into my .emacs file and just another year or two and it'll be perfect!'From there, I found Sublime Text, which is pretty snappy but expensive. And the best plugin for Fountain is basically abandon-ware, glitchy and incomplete. Finally, I have found CudaText and I've been very impressed. It is simple and gets the job done. The developer is very responsive to issues and working hard to improve the programme. That alone is gold. So many app developers (Ulysses, iA Writer, Byword) say they'll keep something in mind for a future upgrade but then their upgrades are slow and for silly cosmetic things. The CudaText developer gets new versions out in short time cycles. (For example, the developer is working on Pandoc integration so you can convert your documents to and from different formats.) If you're looking for a modern text editor that offers distraction-free writing and you don't want to be distracted setting up the editor, this is one of the best editors I've come across. Give it another 15 minutes and it may well be the best. After a lot of comparison, _it's what I use_,. 'Nuff said.
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Description
TreeForm Syntax tree drawing software is a Linguistic Syntax/Semantics tree drawing editor. Designed for graphical n-ary tree drawing. 4media video editor for mac. Linux users must start TreeForm in the console from the install directory location with 'java -jar TreeForm.jar'. Crimson Editor – A very small editor for Windows containing a directory tree view window Geany – A small and fast IDE for Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X that supports code folding, code navigation, a build system, and a plugin interface. Syntax Tree Editor should work on any reasonably modern Windows operating system, such as XP, Vista, 7, and 8. Older versions of Windows (95, 98, ME, 2000) are not supported. Other operating systems, such as Linux and MacOS, are not supported, either.
JSON Editor is a must-have editor for JSON data. In a clean, uncluttered and user-friendly interface, it allows you to quickly create, visualize, modify, validate, format and save your JSON documents.
Along with the included HTTP Client, is a powerful tool to inspect and debug your API endpoints.
KEY FEATURE - JSON EDITOR
• Edit JSON documents both in tree and text modes
• Multiple selection in tree mode - you can select multiple siblings and perform standard operations (i.e. copy, drag and drop etc) on them
• Syntax coloring, auto-indentation and line numbers
• Validation of the JSON document
• Highlight of the validation errors, along with a description of them
• Make the JSON document human readable or compact, even if it is not entirely valid
• Auto-detect if the document is human readable or compact, and preserve this format
• Cut, copy, paste, delete and reorder the tree items
• Undo & redo
• Easily embed selected items in Array or Object (dictionary)
• Find & Replace, both in tree and text modes
• In tree mode you can choose where the Find (and Replace) will take place: in 'Key' column or 'Value' column or both. The option which controls which columns will be searched is available by clicking the 'search' image in the find bar (Command + F) and then accessing the options from 'Find In' submenu
• Find also lets you configure where in the JSON's keys and values to look for matches: 'Contains', 'Equals To', 'Starts With' and 'Ends With'.
• Import and export property list (.plist) files
• Support for pasting plist data, either from XML text or from Xcode
• Copy JSON nodes as Swift objects so you can use them in Xcode
• Copy JSON nodes as Objective-C objects (both modern and classic syntax) so you can use them in Xcode
• Copy JSON nodes as JSON Path strings
• Copy JSON nodes as XML plist so you can paste them in Xcode or other text editor
• Ability to change the default font - this font applies both to the JSON tree and to the text editor
• Ability to increase and decrease font size for better readability
• Detect when the JSON document is changed by another application. In Preferences (Command + ,) -> 'General' tab, you have the ability to customize what to do when this happens: 'Keep JSON Editor's version' or 'Ask how to resolve' or 'Update to modified version'
• Double click on one of JSON tree's column separators to resize the corresponding column so the largest text in that column will be visible
KEY FEATURE - HTTP CLIENT
• To open HTTP Client window choose 'Window -> HTTP Client' (Shift + Command + K)
• HTTP Client allows you to easily perform HTTP requests. While its main purpose is to ease the fetch of JSON content from a server, it can be used to get or upload any content, including binary. The following HTTP verbs are supported: GET, POST, PUT, DELETE, HEAD
• You can create folders to group the HTTP requests. Folders inside folders are supported, too! This feature is very handy to group the projects or APIs you're working with
• Automatically detects if response body is text or binary, and for binary responses will shows its preview, while also allowing you save it to the desired file
• For response bodies which are text, you will have the option to beautify them as JSON and to open them in a new JSON Editor document
• Both HTTP authentication (basic, digest) and Proxy authentication, with Keychain integration, are supported
• OAuth 2.0 is also supported. In addition to the built-in providers (bitly, Facebook, Foursquare, GitHub, Google, Instagram) you may add your custom ones, too
• Once you have added and setup an OAuth 2.0 authorization you can attach it to a HTTP request - JSON Editor will take care of refreshing and attaching access token to the HTTP request
• Export and import HTTP requests and OAuth authorizations
OTHER FEATURES
• Dark Mode (on macOS Mojave 10.14)
• Fullscreen
• Versions
• Services
• Command-line/Terminal integration
• AppleScript (incl. JXA; JavaScript for Automation)
Along with the included HTTP Client, is a powerful tool to inspect and debug your API endpoints.
KEY FEATURE - JSON EDITOR
• Edit JSON documents both in tree and text modes
• Multiple selection in tree mode - you can select multiple siblings and perform standard operations (i.e. copy, drag and drop etc) on them
• Syntax coloring, auto-indentation and line numbers
• Validation of the JSON document
• Highlight of the validation errors, along with a description of them
• Make the JSON document human readable or compact, even if it is not entirely valid
• Auto-detect if the document is human readable or compact, and preserve this format
• Cut, copy, paste, delete and reorder the tree items
• Undo & redo
• Easily embed selected items in Array or Object (dictionary)
• Find & Replace, both in tree and text modes
• In tree mode you can choose where the Find (and Replace) will take place: in 'Key' column or 'Value' column or both. The option which controls which columns will be searched is available by clicking the 'search' image in the find bar (Command + F) and then accessing the options from 'Find In' submenu
• Find also lets you configure where in the JSON's keys and values to look for matches: 'Contains', 'Equals To', 'Starts With' and 'Ends With'.
• Import and export property list (.plist) files
• Support for pasting plist data, either from XML text or from Xcode
• Copy JSON nodes as Swift objects so you can use them in Xcode
• Copy JSON nodes as Objective-C objects (both modern and classic syntax) so you can use them in Xcode
• Copy JSON nodes as JSON Path strings
• Copy JSON nodes as XML plist so you can paste them in Xcode or other text editor
• Ability to change the default font - this font applies both to the JSON tree and to the text editor
• Ability to increase and decrease font size for better readability
• Detect when the JSON document is changed by another application. In Preferences (Command + ,) -> 'General' tab, you have the ability to customize what to do when this happens: 'Keep JSON Editor's version' or 'Ask how to resolve' or 'Update to modified version'
• Double click on one of JSON tree's column separators to resize the corresponding column so the largest text in that column will be visible
KEY FEATURE - HTTP CLIENT
• To open HTTP Client window choose 'Window -> HTTP Client' (Shift + Command + K)
• HTTP Client allows you to easily perform HTTP requests. While its main purpose is to ease the fetch of JSON content from a server, it can be used to get or upload any content, including binary. The following HTTP verbs are supported: GET, POST, PUT, DELETE, HEAD
• You can create folders to group the HTTP requests. Folders inside folders are supported, too! This feature is very handy to group the projects or APIs you're working with
• Automatically detects if response body is text or binary, and for binary responses will shows its preview, while also allowing you save it to the desired file
• For response bodies which are text, you will have the option to beautify them as JSON and to open them in a new JSON Editor document
• Both HTTP authentication (basic, digest) and Proxy authentication, with Keychain integration, are supported
• OAuth 2.0 is also supported. In addition to the built-in providers (bitly, Facebook, Foursquare, GitHub, Google, Instagram) you may add your custom ones, too
• Once you have added and setup an OAuth 2.0 authorization you can attach it to a HTTP request - JSON Editor will take care of refreshing and attaching access token to the HTTP request
• Export and import HTTP requests and OAuth authorizations
OTHER FEATURES
• Dark Mode (on macOS Mojave 10.14)
• Fullscreen
• Versions
• Services
• Command-line/Terminal integration
• AppleScript (incl. JXA; JavaScript for Automation)
Best Text Editors for macOS. Note: In this article, we are focusing on the best text editors for coding but if you are looking for a text editor for your writing purposes, you can check out our article on the best writing apps for Mac. Sublime Text 3. Sublime Text is probably one of the most famous text editors available for Mac and for all the right reasons.
What’s New
Improvements
• Adds 'PATCH' in the list of HTTP verbs support by the HTTP Client.
Introduced in Version 1.29
Improvements
• Adds support to turn off the '+' and '-' buttons which appear on the row tracked by mouse. This can be done from Preferences (Command + ,) , by unchecking 'Show '+' and '-' buttons on the row tracked by mouse' option from 'View and Edit' tab.
• User's consent is now obtained before collecting crash reports and analytics.
Bug fixing
• Fixes the printing in Dark mode.
Introduced in Version 1.28
Bug fixing
• Fixes an issue where sometimes the response of a web service failed to be opened from command-line.
Introduced in Version 1.27
Bug fixing
• Fixes an issue where sometimes the response of a web service failed to be opened from command-line.
Introduced in Version 1.26
Improvements
• Adds command-line/Terminal integration. 'Preferences' -> 'Integration' contains the details how you can set this up. This integration allows you to control JSON Editor from the command-line, like piping text to a new document in JSON Editor. The command set, currently implemented in the command-line tool, is fairly limited, but based on your needs I may choose to expand it. Just drop an email to [email protected] with the features you would like to see.
• Enables support for AppleScript (incl. JXA; JavaScript for Automation). Currently, in addition to the standard suite, the only functionality which is supported is to get and set the (raw JSON) content of a JSON document. Based on your feedback, more functionalities might be added.
• Appearance/Theming can be customized from 'Preferences' -> 'View and Edit' tab -> 'Appearance'. Available only from macOS 10.14, you can choose between 'Respect System Setting', 'Light' and 'Dark'.
• Adds option, in 'Preferences', to specify what kind of content to be created when opening a new document in 'JSON Tree Editor' and, respectivelly, in 'JSON Text Editor'. For 'JSON Tree Editor', you may choose between 'Object' and 'Array' and for 'JSON Text Editor' you have the options 'Object', 'Array' and 'None (Empty)'.
Bug fixing
• Fixes a couple of crashes reported by Crashlytics.
Introduced in Version 1.25
Improvements
• You can now disable the sending of crash reports and analytics from 'Preferences' -> 'General' tab.
Bug fixing
• Fixes a crash/freeze which happened when saving a document where you previously edited a JSON key or value and then collapsed the parent item before ending the edit.
Introduced in Version 1.24
Improvements
• Dark Mode - JSON Editor now properly supports Dark Mode on macOS Mojave 10.14.
Introduced in Version 1.23
Improvements
• Adds support to export and import HTTP Requests and OAuth Authorizations. Just right click an item and select 'Export..'. You may even choose the root groups for 'HTTP Requests' and 'OAuth 2.0 Authorizations' or other arbitrary group. The selection will be exported in a file with '.httpclientexport' extension. To import right click an item and choose 'Import..' or use the '+' button at the bottom of the 'HTTP Client' window.
Introduced in Version 1.22
Bug fixing
• Removes any restriction regarding the nesting depth of a JSON array or object. This will make 'Input depth exceeds max depth of 32' error to not appear anymore.
Introduced in Version 1.21
Bug fixing
• Fixes the import of .plist files.
• Adds 'PATCH' in the list of HTTP verbs support by the HTTP Client.
Introduced in Version 1.29
Improvements
• Adds support to turn off the '+' and '-' buttons which appear on the row tracked by mouse. This can be done from Preferences (Command + ,) , by unchecking 'Show '+' and '-' buttons on the row tracked by mouse' option from 'View and Edit' tab.
• User's consent is now obtained before collecting crash reports and analytics.
Bug fixing
• Fixes the printing in Dark mode.
Introduced in Version 1.28
Bug fixing
• Fixes an issue where sometimes the response of a web service failed to be opened from command-line.
Introduced in Version 1.27
Bug fixing
• Fixes an issue where sometimes the response of a web service failed to be opened from command-line.
Introduced in Version 1.26
Improvements
• Adds command-line/Terminal integration. 'Preferences' -> 'Integration' contains the details how you can set this up. This integration allows you to control JSON Editor from the command-line, like piping text to a new document in JSON Editor. The command set, currently implemented in the command-line tool, is fairly limited, but based on your needs I may choose to expand it. Just drop an email to [email protected] with the features you would like to see.
• Enables support for AppleScript (incl. JXA; JavaScript for Automation). Currently, in addition to the standard suite, the only functionality which is supported is to get and set the (raw JSON) content of a JSON document. Based on your feedback, more functionalities might be added.
• Appearance/Theming can be customized from 'Preferences' -> 'View and Edit' tab -> 'Appearance'. Available only from macOS 10.14, you can choose between 'Respect System Setting', 'Light' and 'Dark'.
• Adds option, in 'Preferences', to specify what kind of content to be created when opening a new document in 'JSON Tree Editor' and, respectivelly, in 'JSON Text Editor'. For 'JSON Tree Editor', you may choose between 'Object' and 'Array' and for 'JSON Text Editor' you have the options 'Object', 'Array' and 'None (Empty)'.
Bug fixing
• Fixes a couple of crashes reported by Crashlytics.
Introduced in Version 1.25
Improvements
• You can now disable the sending of crash reports and analytics from 'Preferences' -> 'General' tab.
Bug fixing
• Fixes a crash/freeze which happened when saving a document where you previously edited a JSON key or value and then collapsed the parent item before ending the edit.
Introduced in Version 1.24
Improvements
• Dark Mode - JSON Editor now properly supports Dark Mode on macOS Mojave 10.14.
Introduced in Version 1.23
Improvements
• Adds support to export and import HTTP Requests and OAuth Authorizations. Just right click an item and select 'Export..'. You may even choose the root groups for 'HTTP Requests' and 'OAuth 2.0 Authorizations' or other arbitrary group. The selection will be exported in a file with '.httpclientexport' extension. To import right click an item and choose 'Import..' or use the '+' button at the bottom of the 'HTTP Client' window.
Introduced in Version 1.22
Bug fixing
• Removes any restriction regarding the nesting depth of a JSON array or object. This will make 'Input depth exceeds max depth of 32' error to not appear anymore.
Introduced in Version 1.21
Bug fixing
• Fixes the import of .plist files.
28 Ratings
This was the app I was looking for!
This was just the app I was looking for to edit and validate JSON data. I looked at a lot of apps, but this one really fit the bill.
It’s easy to view and edit JSON. The app quickly converts JSON between “Tree” editor and “Text” editor mode. Vine editor for mac. This makes it easy to paste JSON data in text mode and then convert to tree mode for validation and viewing.
The app also has a great HTTP client which is useful for interacting with REST API in the Cloud. I’d used a couple of other HTTP clients, but this app - once again - really met my needs. And, I especially like the “Beautify” button on the HTTP Response dialog of the client. That really makes it easy to quickly view the data coming from the cloud.
Finally, the author does a fantastic job with support. Quickly answering questions and adding new features. Highly rated app and author!
It’s easy to view and edit JSON. The app quickly converts JSON between “Tree” editor and “Text” editor mode. Vine editor for mac. This makes it easy to paste JSON data in text mode and then convert to tree mode for validation and viewing.
The app also has a great HTTP client which is useful for interacting with REST API in the Cloud. I’d used a couple of other HTTP clients, but this app - once again - really met my needs. And, I especially like the “Beautify” button on the HTTP Response dialog of the client. That really makes it easy to quickly view the data coming from the cloud.
Finally, the author does a fantastic job with support. Quickly answering questions and adding new features. Highly rated app and author!
Syntax Tree Editor Mac
Developer Response,
sgspecker, thank you for the review and the rating! I'm happy to hear that you like the application and find it useful. If there is anything else you would like to see in the app, don't hesitate to contact me.
![Syntax Syntax](/uploads/1/2/6/8/126887473/222711441.png)
Pretty good!
I’m using this app currently to build and edit several rather large (several hundred line) JSON files for a development project. Overall it’s pretty good. It helps visualize the structure of the file really well, and editing is very simple.
My only request is multiple selections. In my use case, I find my self changing structures sometimes which means moving rows to different areas of the structure while maintaining their order. Because I often have to move around many rows at once, I have to do them one by one, as I cannot shift+select multiple items at once. Adding that functionality would probably shave a solid hour off my work.
My only request is multiple selections. In my use case, I find my self changing structures sometimes which means moving rows to different areas of the structure while maintaining their order. Because I often have to move around many rows at once, I have to do them one by one, as I cannot shift+select multiple items at once. Adding that functionality would probably shave a solid hour off my work.
Developer Response,
![Free video editor for mac Free video editor for mac](https://a.fsdn.com/con/app/proj/syntactictree/screenshots/189429.jpg/max/max/1)
Drew Hood, thank you for your feedback! Starting from version 1.15, multiple selection is supported by the application! You can select multiple siblings and manipulate them: copy, move, delete, duplicate, edit etc. Please download the latest version of the app and let me know how this works for you. If you have more suggestions feel free to use 'Help -> Send Feedback' to contact me.
Exactly what I was looking for: an efficient JSON browser
Best photo editor software for mac free. I need to grapple with JSON files: review them, check them against a spec, design them, document the designs, etc, etc.
This app is perfect for me, allowing me to quickly see how a new JSON is laid out, searching for things, digging deep when I need to. I’m very glad I spent $5 on it, I’ll be using it every day now.
I strongly recommend this app if you do any work with JSON objects and files; it is quick, clean, efficient, powerful.
This app is perfect for me, allowing me to quickly see how a new JSON is laid out, searching for things, digging deep when I need to. I’m very glad I spent $5 on it, I’ll be using it every day now.
I strongly recommend this app if you do any work with JSON objects and files; it is quick, clean, efficient, powerful.
Developer Response,
dmac-ct, thank you for the review! In the eventuality there are any improvements you would like to see, please don't hesitate to contact me at [email protected]
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