187
"Notepad++ for Mac" release is disavowed by the creator of the original
(arstechnica.com)
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
this post was submitted on 08 May 2026
187 points (95.6% liked)
Technology
84796 readers
4218 users here now
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Our Rules
- Follow the lemmy.world rules.
- Only tech related news or articles.
- Be excellent to each other!
- Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
- Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
- Politics threads may be removed.
- No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
- Only approved bots from the list below, this includes using AI responses and summaries. To ask if your bot can be added please contact a mod.
- Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
- Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.
Approved Bots
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
Use Kate.
Kate exists on MacOS? Seems like a no-brainer. I discovered it with KDE, of course, and it's great.
Yeah, you can also run it on Windows. It has replaced all text editors for me on any system.
It has a mac build but last I checked only nightly build were available for mac.
I just tried. I was very ... skeptic about a QT app running on the Mac. But yeah, it works quite fine. Minor things like not signing the bundle (that's on Apple, but you can totally do it with a free dev cert) which you can easily bypass, and some fonts looking small on retina displays (which it's like, all the recent macs)... it's pretty rad. And I trust KDE waaaaaaaaaay more than .. Zed, VSCode & friends.
regarding the tiny font thing.. maybe you can set QT_AUTO_SCREEN_SCALE_FACTOR env variable or something similar in qt's config file?
Yep, I use it on my Mac. I also use Konsole instead of Terminal. I wish Dolphin was available, but sadly it's not.
I don’t want to lead you wrong, but I believe Kate has been ported to both Mac and Windows.
I've only had middling luck with KDE apps on macOS. Kate didn't run, Okular was fine.
It's no wonder since they are only provided as nightlies. But that's understandable, if I was a KDE dev I'd also be loathe to buy into Apples ecosystem.
Unfortunately they won't let me have Linux at work.
I’m in the same boat but I work in a Windows shop. Thank goodness for WSL.
I'd just like Kate to have plugins for formatting Json and xml. Been a while, but last time I tried I couldn't find any. It was by far my favourite editor back then, but didn't continue after I changed jobs and needed windows.
A long time ago I had made a custom formatter for Kate via python, but I barely have any energy left to roll something in my own nowadays...
Too many years on bbedit to change now. But Kate is great, too.