Bare Bones Software today announced new academic pricing for TextWrangler, its text editor for writing and coding. Students and academic professionals can now purchase TextWrangler for US$39 (regularly US$49). TextWrangler serves as an editor for composing and modifying plain text and text-oriented data, including Unicode (UTF-8 and UTF-16) files and most non-Roman single-byte files. TextWrangler includes an integrated spell checker, numerous character formatting commands, fast multi-file search and replace, ‘grep’ style pattern matching based on PCRE (Perl-Compatible Regular Expression), a rich plug-in architecture, an array of built-in text transformation functions and more. The new TextWrangler academic pricing compliments the academic pricing for BBEdit ($119) and Mailsmith ($79).
