alt Hacker NewsNotepad++ Code Editor Comes to Mac After 20-Year Wait
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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!
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).
>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...
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
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.
Wow! As a heavy Notepad++ on Windows I am really happy. I haven't found anything to replace Notepad++ on Mac for me.
Mac graybeards everywhere are snickering knowing that most people are UNAWARE of Bbedit.
https://www.barebones.com/products/bbedit/