Edit Plus alternatives for mac

[seansmith1989]

Hi there im literally new to scripting so go easy on me. In the introduction to MEL, they use edit plus to write scripts and then import them to maya to run. As far as i know, edit plus is windows only. Does anyone know what i can use to do the same job on a mac.
Thanks guys

[bianconero90]

Any text editor such as notepad, BBEdit, TextEdit, etc. will work.

Hope that helps!

[chrisg]

Hi seansmith1989,

bianconero90's recommendations are good ones. Just to clarify, you don't need to write your scripts in a specific application, you just need a text editor that doesn't try to format your text. For example, Microsoft Word will try to spell check your words and fix your grammar, which will break most scripts. So we need to use a 'dumb' text editor that doesn't try to change what we're typing.

Let us know if you have any other questions!

[seansmith1989]

Thanks for the help guys, really appreciate it.