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[-] rotkehle@feddit.org 11 points 1 week ago

is there a good alternative close to notepad++ on MacOS?

[-] comador@lemmy.world 21 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

CotEditor and BBEdit 15 are probably the best Mac alternatives that will fit most needs.

[-] MurrayL@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

Yep, CotEditor is fantastic - solo dev and they’re very careful to follow the actual macOS interface guidelines, so it looks and feels native throughout.

[-] Good4Nuthin@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

Yeah, I landed on CotEditor after trying quite a few.

[-] DougPiranha42@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

I settled on sublime. It is not exactly the same as np++, but works great on both Mac and Linux, so at least I don’t need to get used to a separate editor for those two environments.

[-] anomnom@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago

Anyone remember Textmate? I’m still using it on my old Macs. Sublime was a similar app in its early versions, but I haven’t followed it.

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