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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

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Post by nneonneo »

tdsanchez wrote: post #13
larodi wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sublime Text. The elder and chief of them all. The inspirer.

Bbedit is better than Sublime and is arguably more refined. I use it and Bbedit and vi.

BBEdit is wonderful. I got hooked by TextWrangler and eventually bit the bullet to upgrade, and it was a great decision.

I’ve used Sublime (3 and 4), VSCode, Notepad++, vi, etc.; even made some plugins for Sublime, and I still vastly prefer BBEdit.

Re: Notepad++ Code Editor Comes to Mac After 20-Year Wait

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Post by layer8 »

fluoridation wrote: post #17
alsetmusic wrote: post #9

Yeah, 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).

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With that kind of brain damage, you might very well not appreciate it anymore. ;)

Re: Notepad++ Code Editor Comes to Mac After 20-Year Wait

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Post by delfinom »

larodi wrote: post #6
DeathArrow wrote: post #5

Wow! 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.

To burst your bubble, Notepad++ is the elder to Sublime Text by 5 years.

Re: Notepad++ Code Editor Comes to Mac After 20-Year Wait

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Post by anonthrownaway »

nneonneo wrote: post #16
anonthrownaway wrote: post #12

>The only difference is that the menus, dialogs, file pickers, keyboard shortcuts, and windowing all use native macOS Cocoa APIs. Why would I want native macOS dialogs where the save as dialog can only show 32 characters on the screen at once? I use LibreOffice on Mac mostly because it allows me to use their dialogs instead of the crap macOS ones...

One big reason is sandboxing - the native dialogs can view the entire filesystem hierarchy and automatically grant access to selected resources to the calling app. Non-native dialogs are restricted to whatever the app has access to, which means you often have to give the apps Full Disk Access to make them work properly.

Good point. I forgot that I had to do that...

Re: Notepad++ Code Editor Comes to Mac After 20-Year Wait

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Post by bananamogul »

larodi wrote: post #6
DeathArrow wrote: post #5

Wow! 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.

Zed. The newcomer. The liberator.

Re: Notepad++ Code Editor Comes to Mac After 20-Year Wait

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Post by tartoran »

fluoridation wrote: post #17
alsetmusic wrote: post #9

Yeah, 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).

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As a daily Notepad++ user for 20 years I agree, these kinds of ports to Mac make it easier for people to jump ship.

Re: Notepad++ Code Editor Comes to Mac After 20-Year Wait

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Post by big_toast »

tdsanchez wrote: post #11

Mac graybeards everywhere are snickering knowing that most people are UNAWARE of Bbedit. https://www.barebones.com/products/bbedit/

I've been aware of Bbedit but never really used it. Are there things it does better than more recent editors or is it more of a devil you know? Like a WordPerfect situation.
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