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> capture the notepad++ macos market Is it big? Notepad++ is big in the Windows world but I am not certain that it is automatically big on Mac. They have much
by Matl 5mo ago
> capture the notepad++ macos market
Is it big?
Notepad++ is big in the Windows world but I am not certain that it is automatically big on Mac. They have much more Mac-native feeling editors like TextMate, Nova, Cot, even SublimeText feels more macOS-ishy than Notepad++
I am on Linux, Notepad++ is not a name of concern on here at all and if it ever came to Linux most people wouldn't notice.
If you're in the Windows world that might seem like an improbability given how big it is there, but trust me, it's not a well known name anywhere else.
- lukan 5mo ago"I am on Linux, Notepad++ is not a name of concern on here at all and if it ever came to Linux most people wouldn't notice." Strong disagree. The thing I miss in linux most is notepad++ or something as capable and usable (open for suggestions, but chances are I already tried them)
- throwaway270925 5mo agoAny pointers on what exactly you miss compared to Linux alternatives like Kate, Sublime, VSCode, etc? (Assuming you already tried them)
- lukan 5mo agoSublime I like, but is proprietary (and there was something else). VScode is too heavy, kate as well. (But maybe with kate I just need to modify the key bindings so they match what I am used to, I only recently tried it out) Basically, I want code folding(with option to collapse all the tree), macrorecording, search (replace) in files, but with all the goodies notepadd++ provides, where I can easily set the folder to search, what filepatterns to exclude etc.
- 47282847 5mo agoZed?
- technothrasher 5mo agoNotepadqq is a decent crack at a Notepad++ clone for Linux, but it is no longer actively maintained.
- lukan 5mo agoThanks, I did not try out that one, though it being abandoned is of course not great.
- pjc50 5mo agoInteresting. I'd have thought that Linux users would go traditional (vi vs. Emacs) or for something heavier (vscode), or quick and easy for when you just need $EDITOR (nano).
- lukan 5mo agoFor some reasons I never liked vi nor emacs, vscode is indeed too heavy and nano too awkward. I use mostly xed, but it lacks compared to notepad++
- philistine 5mo ago> I miss There's the rub, I miss. Notepad++ is thoroughly a Windows app. Linux and Mac natives have no appetite for one of the most thoroughly Windows-ass Windows app around. Switchers, sure. But take me as an example. I've been on a Mac since 2007. At this point I'm a native. I'm not even aware of what Notepad++ really does.
- lukan 5mo agoWell, I am a "switcher" since 20 years, so rather OS agnostic. I regulaty switch between linux and windows (and chromeos) and sometimes mac and ideally I want all my apps to work the same, no matter the OS.
- yjftsjthsd-h 5mo agoI thought actual n++ worked well in WINE?
- lukan 5mo agoNot the last times I tried it, but it has been a while (but I did also recently read about problems .. and I need a text editor to work without problems)
- 6AA4FD 5mo agoAlways vim, never really understood why people use anything else for a dumb ide.
- lukan 5mo agoOk, I might give it a try again. Funny thing: I googled "vim" and google replied with: "did you mean emacs?"
- theanonymousone 5mo agoI have been using NotepadNext. Works fine.
- prepend 5mo agoIt’s probably a few thousand users. When I switched to mac, I looked for notepad++ and settled on BBEdit (which is awesome and funny I forgot about it all these years). This doesn’t seem like for money, but for esteem.
- shagie 5mo agoA shout out for BBEdit which is a 34 year old Mac native text editor that maintains a freemium license (and the free version is still quite featureful). It doesn’t suck.® I've maintained my copy of it from back in the MacOS 7.x days.