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Re: Notepad++ for Mac – Independent community port

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Post by MBCook »

cosmic_cheese wrote: post #79
MBCook wrote: post #77

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Nope. Not even close. Yeah the Mac GUI has declined. But it’s still far better than the incoherent mess of the last 15 ways MS were totally the future mashed together in random places. Windows has had great points. 95 era was fantastic. 2000 too, and I liked XP though third party apps went nuts. Modern Windows is none of those. I’ll keep my somewhat messed up Mac.

I thought that MS had a good thing going on with the refinements in Aero brought by Windows 7. It nicely balanced a modern theme with a traditional desktop model and it still respected the user while bringing some massive QoL improvements. Had Windows 8 been further refinement into the Fluent design language along with unifying lingering Win9x style panels into the Vista/7 style, it would’ve been massively popular an…

They might have. I moved to the Mac during XP. I never used Windows 7.

I have used the server version that’s designed to be a bit like 8. I may have used 8 too, I can’t remember for sure. I’ve definitely used 10+.

I have a PC at work that I use from time to time, plus I remote into various Windows machines. Between those two I’ve gotten a taste of the more modern versions.

Re: Notepad++ for Mac – Independent community port

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Post by [deleted] »

wink wrote: post #58
internet2000 wrote: post #22

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New switcher on his brand new MacBook Neo who doesn't want to learn Mac apps and conventions? Guaranteed this person uses a Windows "Alt-tab" style switcher app too.

It sounds like you think this is a bad thing. The tab switching is one of the main things that annoy me on a mac, and I'd describe myself as a linux tiling window person first, windows user only second. Also my mac usage is hopefully only temporary, so why adopt to this - to me - inferior way. And jftr, I don't plan to use this - I kinda like NPP, but I prefer to use TextAdept on Linux and Mac for notes anyway (and n…

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Re: Notepad++ for Mac – Independent community port

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Post by s_trumpet »

MBCook wrote: post #4

Why? I get it’s popular on Windows. But it’s so incredibly Windows-y, not Mac like at all. And we already have BBEdit and Nova. Perhaps the site answers past “you like it here it is”, but at the moment we appear to have slashdotted them.

Notepad++ has incredibly easy to use macros with the record/play buttons in the toolbar. It is my preferred tool for quickly munging text files especially ones where you want to change formatting through the file.

Re: Notepad++ for Mac – Independent community port

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Post by Hard_Space »

akho wrote: post #56
reikonomusha wrote: post #47

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I've noticed this more recently on HN. Either the top comment has to be some negative sentiment even if seemingly good-faith, or a comment on something completely tangential (like the color of the website), or a comment on their own project that's related to the thing posted but it feels more like look-at-me advertising rather than earnestly engaging with the submission. Some of these go against the guidelines, but m…

it reliably keeps buffers between restarts, including for unsaved files. It's kinda amazing at that.

Not so for this port, which, besides not remembering sessions, crashed very early, and made me return to BBEdit.

Re: Notepad++ for Mac – Independent community port

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Post by spectre3d »

krackers wrote: post #20
MBCook wrote: post #4

Why? I get it’s popular on Windows. But it’s so incredibly Windows-y, not Mac like at all. And we already have BBEdit and Nova. Perhaps the site answers past “you like it here it is”, but at the moment we appear to have slashdotted them.

Don't forget TextMate, CotEditor, Chocolat. There are so many mac-native text editors that it's a crowded space for a new entrant sporting a distinctively un-mac-like UX.

Smultron is a good one that I’ve been using for over a decade alongside BBEdit. The developer offers versions for 10.10 Yosemite and newer.

https://www.peterborgapps.com/smultron/

Re: Notepad++ for Mac – Independent community port

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Post by veverkap »

vunderba wrote: post #18

I know that the original Notepad++ is under GPLv2 so creating an open-source port is perfectly acceptable, but the Notepad++ name itself is trademarked by Don Ho, so calling itself "Notepad++" (for Mac) along with using an almost identical icon feels like it's crossing some boundaries.

https://notepad-plus-plus.org/news/npp-trademark-infringemen... Don Ho (original author of Notepad++) is not happy.

Re: Notepad++ for Mac – Independent community port

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Post by 4nonverbal-alit »

demetris wrote: post #61
macki0 wrote: post #53

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Proof: https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus-mac/notepad-plus-plus-m... Every single commit says ‘and claude’

That is not necessarily proof. Sometimes I am too lazy to think of a good commit message, so I have a custom command that tells the assistant to do this: Commit umstaged changes with a nice clean message summary and no full message. By default, Claude Code co-signs those commits (which I do not like at all as a default).

The proof is good enough though.

Even if the code was written by author, not bothering to remove co-signed-by part from the commit message (assuming author did indeed wrote it by himself) let alone not writing their own commit message is an indication of negligence to me

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