Notepad++ Code Editor Comes to Mac After 20-Year Wait

The fashionable Notepad++ coding exertion is now disposable arsenic a autochthonal macOS app, pursuing a palmy open-source assemblage larboard of the archetypal Windows codebase. The Notepad replacement runs arsenic a cosmopolitan binary, truthful it works connected some Apple silicon and Intel Macs.


Notepad++ has been 1 of the astir fashionable substance editors connected Windows for much than 20 years. Until now, Mac users who switched from Windows, oregon who worked crossed some platforms, had to take betwixt giving up the exertion and moving it done a Wine oregon CrossOver compatibility layer. Now those users person nary specified dilemma.

The editing acquisition is identical to the Windows version, close down to the Scintilla engine, tabbed editing, syntax highlighting for 80+ languages, hunt and replace, macro recording, and plugin support. The lone quality is that the menus, dialogs, record pickers, keyboard shortcuts, and windowing each usage autochthonal macOS Cocoa APIs.

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 disposable to download from the Notepad++ website. It's wholly escaped and released nether the GNU General Public License, truthful determination are nary ads, subs, oregon hidden costs.

(Thanks, Mike!)
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