Notepad++ for Mac – Independent community port

manbart

Wish there was a Linux port too

p_ing

> This project is an independent open-source community port of Notepad++ to macOS Import note.

MBCook

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.

ulfw

I like how it's a native Mac app and looks 0% like a Mac app whatsoever. Also the scaling is off on my Macbook Pro. Everything looks half as big as it should be. Tiny fonts, tiny tiny icon bar. Wow.

b3ing

I think there are like 4 or 5 apps like this but only 2 or 3 are using a fork

r00t-

This was definitely vibe coded, even the landing page.

NOTpadpp

There is a crippling lack of note on the fact this is unofficial

phpdave11

I’ve been using Notepad Next on Mac: https://github.com/dail8859/NotepadNext

luckydata

the ui is fugly

vunderba

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.

Detrytus

It is kind of ironic that the two Windows applications I missed the most in both Linux and Mac are good text editor and terminal emulator: Notepad++ and MobaXTerm

semiinfinitely

have you heard of TextEdit

Hard_Space

Not really understanding the negative trend of comments. As someone who accesses multiple Windows machines on a LAN via a MacBook Air, I'm glad to have as many common GUIs as possible. I found it a bit hard to get used to BBEdit when I started using a Mac again, and have been a Notepad++ lover for many years. So, thanks to the dev for this.