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Good & Free Editor in Mac OS with highlighting and side-by-side editing/comparison. I need it for: XML, C++ and PHP. Thanks in advance.

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MacVIM (or standard Unix VIM) works well. It performs syntax highlighting for the above languages and will do side-by-side diffing.

Brian Agnew
+1 Thanks Brian! I use MacVim but yet to know how to do side-by-side diffing.
Viet
:help diff should point you in the right direction, along with the above links
Brian Agnew
+2  A: 

Check the answers given in What is a good C++ editor for Mac OS X?.

Zoran Regvart
+1 I missed it. Thanks!
Viet
+1  A: 

TextWrangler is pretty good, you should give it a go.

Frank T. Icali
+1. Thanks but is it free?
Viet
+1  A: 

Komodo Editor will also do comparisons, and it does support all above languages and more.

Rilindo
+1. thanks. I have not tried comparisons with it.
Viet