Notepad++ heavily relies on Win32 API, porting it to another platform is like writing new editor. There are a lot of good cross platform text editors, devote some time learning one of them.
Ask HN: Why is Notepad++ not ported to mac yet?
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#12Visual Studio Code and Atom are way better.
Feature-wise yes but Notepad++ is much much faster in my experience, closer to Sublime Text.
Re: Ask HN: Why is Notepad++ not ported to mac yet?
#13Not ideal - but does it work in Wine ?
Re: Ask HN: Why is Notepad++ not ported to mac yet?
#14Visual Studio Code and Atom are way better.
Feature-wise yes but Notepad++ is much much faster in my experience, closer to Sublime Text.
If speed (editor performance) is key, then VIM ... jump the first learning curve... and feel free to use neovim or the mac gui for neovim (https://github.com/rogual/neovim-dot-app)
When it comes to actual editor performance, you dont get much better than VIM or Emacs... either of which perform well enough to load GB size files and not die on their face...
Re: Ask HN: Why is Notepad++ not ported to mac yet?
#15Earlier quoted context omitted.
Feature-wise yes but Notepad++ is much much faster in my experience, closer to Sublime Text.
If speed (editor performance) is key, then VIM ... jump the first learning curve... and feel free to use neovim or the mac gui for neovim ( https://github.com/rogual/neovim-dot-app ) When it comes to actual editor performance, you dont get much better than VIM or Emacs... either of which perform well enough to load GB size files and not die on their face...
Have you ever tried hex fiend? That thing can load 20Gb files and allow you to scroll through it easily...How does it do it and why doesn't everyone copy them?
Re: Ask HN: Why is Notepad++ not ported to mac yet?
#16I once thought of porting it over to run on Ubuntu, but I read over the source, realized that Notepad++ uses the Win32 API quite extensively and quickly abandoned my plans. Ultimately, I would have ended up writing/supporting a totally new editor...then dealing with legions of people who are angry that my first 0.1 didn't provide an exact 1:1 feature match of Notepad++.
Re: Ask HN: Why is Notepad++ not ported to mac yet?
#17We have Vim installed by default.
While I don't think most people (or even many) would agree with you. As someone who uses Vim pretty much exclusively (and has a Mac), I kind of had to smile at this.
For most people though, Notepad++ and Vim are not the same type of animal.
Re: Ask HN: Why is Notepad++ not ported to mac yet?
#18I don't know, but it works flawlessly in Wine, in my experience. If you use WineBottler, you get an app bundle with the actual app icon and it displays "natively", without X11. I like notepad++, but I use BBEdit on Mac. I don't like switching to an app with win32 keybinds on OS X
Re: Ask HN: Why is Notepad++ not ported to mac yet?
#19CodeElite?
Re: Ask HN: Why is Notepad++ not ported to mac yet?
#20There is a clone that works on Linux. I assume it would be an easier path to get that working on OSX versus the actual Notepad++, which is rife with Win32 dependencies.