| ▲ | Notepad++ for Mac – Independent community port(notepad-plus-plus-mac.org) |
| 49 points by jonbaer 2 hours ago | 26 comments |
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| ▲ | p_ing 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| > This project is an independent open-source community port of Notepad++ to macOS Import note. |
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| ▲ | vunderba an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| 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. |
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| ▲ | eurleif an hour ago | parent [-] | | >Notepad++ name itself is trademarked by Don Ho Is it? I can't find a trademark registration on the USPTO site. |
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| ▲ | NOTpadpp an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| There is a crippling lack of note on the fact this is unofficial |
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| ▲ | MBCook 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| 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. |
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| ▲ | krackers an hour ago | parent | next [-] | | 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. | |
| ▲ | internet2000 40 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | 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. | | |
| ▲ | yborg 9 minutes ago | parent [-] | | Can confirm, friend who moved to Mac after 30+ years on Win ecosystem and all of the discussions we have are basically "but on Windows..." They specifically have lamented the unavailability of Notepad++ because of a specific hanging indent behavior they are used to. Most people do not have the cognitive flexibility to really adapt to a tool that is more or less domain equivalent but different in any way. These small differences create more friction than learning something that doesn't have any close mapping to what you knew before. |
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| ▲ | brandonmenc an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Why do anything? | |
| ▲ | vict7 an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | First I've heard of Nova. I have used Transmit--also made by Panic--and was impressed with the UX there. I'll have to give Nova a spin. | |
| ▲ | NautilusWave an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | It's FREEEEEE! | |
| ▲ | j45 an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | | It doesn’t have to be for everyone. Lots of people use both operating systems, or stretched from one to the other. Socrates is about choice, just because I might not see the understanding in something doesn’t mean there isn’t any understanding in it. | | |
| ▲ | MBCook 33 minutes ago | parent [-] | | I use both operating systems. I hate using things that don’t follow platform standards. It makes them more confusing and causes extra cognitive load. I simply see no benefit of a copy of very Windows-y app. It’s pure MDI with buttons in a toolbar. It’s a perfect example of a 3.1/95 style app. It’s not like it has special features missing from the great many editors on Mac. If you want a “same everywhere” experience I’d think you’d want something that sort of lives in its own world like VSCode. It’s not native style anywhere, exactly. But it’s very powerful and popular. In many cases I get “I want the app I like over here”. I really do. Especially if there is something really special about its design or feature set. In my experience with Notepad++, I have never wished to have it on my Mac once. |
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| ▲ | r00t- an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| This was definitely vibe coded, even the landing page. |
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| ▲ | ziml77 an hour ago | parent [-] | | Oh for sure. Just look at the "Author" page. It says he started in March 2026 on this. Which means last month he pointed Claude to the Notepad++ repo and said "make a native port of this to macOS". | | |
| ▲ | Tomte 41 minutes ago | parent [-] | | You can simply look at the GitHub repo where most of the commits say $Name and Claude |
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| ▲ | phpdave11 an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I’ve been using Notepad Next on Mac: https://github.com/dail8859/NotepadNext |
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| ▲ | Detrytus 9 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| 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 |
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| ▲ | manbart 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Wish there was a Linux port too |
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| ▲ | idonotknowwhy 13 minutes ago | parent | next [-] | | I used to use something called “notepadqq”. Not sure if it’s still around but it was a Linux port. | |
| ▲ | jeffnash 23 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | After seeing how quickly those hooligans re-wrote Claude Code in Rust from the leaked sourcemap, I actually made a spec-driven Linux port using Claude Code, Kimi, and Codex just to see if it was possible. Frankly, I thought I was the only human being on earth who used Arch but missed the comforting embrace of Notepad++, so I'm happy to share the fruits of my ~$200 worth of tokens if there's interest! | |
| ▲ | yjftsjthsd-h an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | | I thought it runs well in WINE? Not that a native port wouldn't be better, but that's pretty good. |
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| ▲ | ulfw an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| 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. |
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| ▲ | b3ing an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I think there are like 4 or 5 apps like this but only 2 or 3 are using a fork |
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| ▲ | luckydata an hour ago | parent | prev [-] |
| the ui is fugly |
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