Notepad++ Code Editor Comes to Mac After 20-Year Wait
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Re: Notepad++ Code Editor Comes to Mac After 20-Year Wait
#2Tried it out, still doesn’t feel “native”
- cant drag a file to the dock icon to open it
- closing the window, quits the app
Didn’t test much, but I wish the team the best of luck! It’s a cool project
Re: Notepad++ Code Editor Comes to Mac After 20-Year Wait
#3Tried it out, still doesn’t feel “native” - cant drag a file to the dock icon to open it - closing the window, quits the app Didn’t test much, but I wish the team the best of luck! It’s a cool project
As someone who is currently building a native macOS application (cross-platform actually), but haven't used macOS as my "main OS" for more than a decade, what's the most important things to make desktop applications "feel native" on macOS?
Re: Notepad++ Code Editor Comes to Mac After 20-Year Wait
#4Tried it out, still doesn’t feel “native” - cant drag a file to the dock icon to open it - closing the window, quits the app Didn’t test much, but I wish the team the best of luck! It’s a cool project
As someone who is currently building a native macOS application (cross-platform actually), but haven't used macOS as my "main OS" for more than a decade, what's the most important things to make desktop applications "feel native" on macOS?
Excellent documentation in Apple’s Human Interface Guidelines: https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guideline...
Re: Notepad++ Code Editor Comes to Mac After 20-Year Wait
#5Wow! As a heavy Notepad++ on Windows I am really happy. I haven't found anything to replace Notepad++ on Mac for me.
Re: Notepad++ Code Editor Comes to Mac After 20-Year Wait
#6Wow! As a heavy Notepad++ on Windows I am really happy. I haven't found anything to replace Notepad++ on Mac for me.
Sublime Text. The elder and chief of them all. The inspirer.
Re: Notepad++ Code Editor Comes to Mac After 20-Year Wait
#7Tried it out, still doesn’t feel “native” - cant drag a file to the dock icon to open it - closing the window, quits the app Didn’t test much, but I wish the team the best of luck! It’s a cool project
I've been using Notepad Next, it supports leaving all your tabs open when you close the window which is the main feature I need. But I do miss the plugins.
Re: Notepad++ Code Editor Comes to Mac After 20-Year Wait
#8This was on HN a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47916964
, and there it was mentioned that it is __not__ an official port and has nothing to do with the original Notepad++ author!
Re: Notepad++ Code Editor Comes to Mac After 20-Year Wait
#9Yeah, that's not gonna hit. Non-native UI in an app that no Mac plain-text user asked for. I love Sublime, but TextMate was once king. There are already plenty of good options. I also love VIM for saving test to specific locations while I'm on the command line (I have an `sb` alias for Sublime but I don't want to switch away from my terminal window unless the corpus is large or complex).
Re: Notepad++ Code Editor Comes to Mac After 20-Year Wait
#10Tried it out, still doesn’t feel “native” - cant drag a file to the dock icon to open it - closing the window, quits the app Didn’t test much, but I wish the team the best of luck! It’s a cool project
As someone who is currently building a native macOS application (cross-platform actually), but haven't used macOS as my "main OS" for more than a decade, what's the most important things to make desktop applications "feel native" on macOS?
Use the native text objects --- in particular, this will get you emacs style editing keyboard shortcuts
Support drag-drop
Support Services --- bonus points for implementing core functionality as a Service and making it available thus