| ▲ | Notepad++ Code Editor Comes to Mac After 20-Year Wait(macrumors.com) |
| 33 points by Brajeshwar 12 hours ago | 31 comments |
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| ▲ | theanonymousone 11 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| This 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! |
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| ▲ | stanac 11 hours ago | parent [-] | | And domain is different than original Notepad++, now it makes sense. | | |
| ▲ | trinix912 11 hours ago | parent [-] | | Different yet similar enough to make it seem legit at first. The only "giveaway" for me was the website looking like any other vibecoded SaaS website. Not a good sign for me personally. |
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| ▲ | tdsanchez 11 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Mac graybeards everywhere are snickering knowing that most people are UNAWARE of Bbedit. https://www.barebones.com/products/bbedit/ |
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| ▲ | big_toast 9 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | 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. | |
| ▲ | NoSalt 11 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | When I was a Mac guy, I LOVED BBedit! I purchased the full-blown package. |
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| ▲ | alsetmusic 11 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| 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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| ▲ | fluoridation 11 hours ago | parent [-] | | >an app that no Mac plain-text user asked for I mean, if I got brain damage and decided to switch from Windows to OSX, I'd appreciate the option of being able to continue using Notepad++. | | |
| ▲ | tartoran 10 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | As a daily Notepad++ user for 20 years I agree, these kinds of ports to Mac make it easier for people to jump ship. | |
| ▲ | layer8 11 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | With that kind of brain damage, you might very well not appreciate it anymore. ;) | | |
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| ▲ | sghiassy 12 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Tried 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 |
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| ▲ | vadansky 11 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | 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. | |
| ▲ | embedding-shape 11 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | 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? | | |
| ▲ | andsoitis 11 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Excellent documentation in Apple’s Human Interface Guidelines: https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guideline... | | |
| ▲ | embedding-shape 9 hours ago | parent [-] | | Excellent resource for general UX guidelines, some apply to cross-platform apps, some not so much. I was mainly looking for a Apple/macOS-specific guidelines, but I'm guessing they're mixed in there with everything else. Thanks though, very helpful! |
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| ▲ | WillAdams 11 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | 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 |
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| ▲ | JohnTHaller 8 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | > closing the window, quits the app I've always hated this about macOS. And my main laptop is a macBook Air M3 15. The majority of my friends that use macOS have no idea how to quit an app. Nearly all think closing all the windows quits it. A lot of issues with a lot of apps can be fixed by quitting them and opening them up again. I help a ton of theater techs at a local improv theater. I finally gave up with most of them and told them to just reboot as a first step to fixing issues before continuing other troubleshooting steps. |
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| ▲ | anonthrownaway 11 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| >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... |
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| ▲ | nneonneo 11 hours ago | parent [-] | | 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. | | |
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| ▲ | LeCompteSftware 11 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| This story is so irresponsible. >> Notepad++ for macOS is maintained by Andrey Letov, who wrote the Objective-C++ Cocoa UI that replaces Notepad++'s Win32 front-end. The app is available to download from the Notepad++ website. That is not the Notepad++ website! It's some other website. I understand that this is a fairly legitimate and professional port. But this framing is unacceptable. It's especially grating considering "Notepad++" is trademarked in France: https://data.inpi.fr/marques/FR5133202 [1]. The software is GPL but that doesn't mean you can slap the trademark on any derived codebase - legally problematic in France, but it's disrespectful worldwide. The Mac port really should have been released under a similar but clearly distinct name, and MacRumors should have been way more responsible about framing the story. [1] via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47917939 |
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| ▲ | NoSalt 11 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Notepad++ is one of the BEST things to ever happen to Windows. |
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| ▲ | DeathArrow 11 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Wow! As a heavy Notepad++ on Windows I am really happy. I haven't found anything to replace Notepad++ on Mac for me. |
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| ▲ | larodi 11 hours ago | parent [-] | | Sublime Text. The elder and chief of them all. The inspirer. | | |
| ▲ | tdsanchez 11 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Bbedit is better than Sublime and is arguably more refined. I use it and Bbedit and vi. | | |
| ▲ | nneonneo 11 hours ago | parent [-] | | 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. |
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| ▲ | delfinom 11 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | To burst your bubble, Notepad++ is the elder to Sublime Text by 5 years. | |
| ▲ | bananamogul 11 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Zed. The newcomer. The liberator. | |
| ▲ | moron4hire 11 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | "The inspirer" huh? So Sublime Text went back in time 5 years and inspired Notepad++? |
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| ▲ | ChrisArchitect 11 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| [dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47916964 |
