I was saddened to see that the lovely, generous, and top-notch independent developer Peter Borg decided to quit developing his sharp little text editor “Smultron” (which is Swedish for wild strawberry, in case you’re wondering).

The package is still available from sourceforge.net, of course, but if you are a Mac OS X tiger user like I am, you might be discouraged to note that none of the recent releases work with Tiger, and there are no release notes or comments indicating which file is the most up-to-date Tiger-compatible release.

I did some brute-force testing, and discovered that version 3.1.2 of Smultron is the last release that supported Tiger.

You can download Smultron for Tiger here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/smultron/files/

One of the reasons I like Smultron so much is that it supports bash syntax highlighting, something BBEdit has never done. (I might also add, incidentally, parenthetically, sotto voce, etc, that the bash syntax hightlighting was a feature Mr. Borg generously included due to me literally begging for it.)

Now I’m sure he’s working on the next great thing. Meanwhile, a fork of Smultron has been created (aptly named Fraise, French for strawberry) and development goes on.