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    • Thien NguyenT
      Thien Nguyen
      last edited by dail

      This post is deleted!
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      • Mustafa ÖzcanM
        Mustafa Özcan
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        HTMLPen is a free online Visual HTML Editor (WYSIWYG Editor) program allows you visually edit, preview, and run your html code. It is also a powerful online text editor.

        Check it out: https://htmlpen.com/

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        • Serkan AloxS
          Serkan Alox @Mustafa Özcan
          last edited by

          @Mustafa-Özcan +1 great comment!

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          • RaphaelR
            Raphael
            last edited by

            Fraise is quite a good editor

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            • Nicholas ReedN
              Nicholas Reed
              last edited by

              Hello,
              I am actually working on porting Notepad++ to macOS. If you have any coding experience with Objective-C or Swift, it would be appreciated if you could help me.

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              • Scott SumnerS
                Scott Sumner @Nicholas Reed
                last edited by PeterJones

                @Nicholas-Reed

                You might want to see the posting by @Meta-Chuh in this thread .

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                • iamezcua-devI
                  iamezcua-dev
                  last edited by

                  I like Atom, but Notepad++ is more lightweight so I prefer it. If you need any help in developing a version for mac, I offer my knowledge and my time.

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                  • EkopalypseE
                    Ekopalypse
                    last edited by

                    @Meta-Chuh
                    just curious, any progress on that? :-)

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                    • Alan KilbornA
                      Alan Kilborn
                      last edited by

                      @Meta-Chuh , Yea…WTF…that tantalizing posting was from mid Oct 2018! :)

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                      • Mark Miller126M
                        Mark Miller126
                        last edited by Mark Miller126

                        BBEdit from Bare Bones Development. It’s free to use. Pay for extra features. Not a large expense if you decide to purchase it. Not an endorsement, just a happy user.

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                        • Eduards JegorovsE
                          Eduards Jegorovs
                          last edited by Eduards Jegorovs

                          Opensource CotEditor: https://coteditor.com/

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                          • nuncio-bitisN
                            nuncio-bitis
                            last edited by

                            I just downloaded and tried CotEditor.
                            I highly recommend it. It’s just what I’ve been looking for.
                            Small, lightweight, fast, edit plain text and highlight syntax for multiple languages, highlight occurrences of a symbol, column select just like NPP.
                            Awesome

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                            • Dominic StrangeD
                              Dominic Strange
                              last edited by PeterJones

                              I’ve been using Notepad++ on my Mac for years - I use CrossOver, <deleted url to 404 not found page>

                              which works well, and keeps all of Notepad++'s features, whilst still keeping it lightweight. Highly recommended.


                              moderator: link deleted; 404 errror

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                              • techs quiralT
                                techs quiral
                                last edited by PeterJones

                                These are the best alternative is available in the replacement for Notepad++ mac and you will be going to see that these are having all of the same functions and features of Notepad++. However, if we talk about the Notepad++ features then the most popular features of it are syntax highlighting, macro reading, regular expressions, customizable interface and much more and the best thing that you will be going to get all of these trending and latest features in these alternatives also for your iPad or Mac. So, let us check and come to know about different Notepad++ alternatives for Mac or Windows and you are free to choose any of them according to your own choice.


                                moderator: link deleted; see 2026-Feb-12 post for explanation

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                                • minh chen cuteM
                                  minh chen cute @Rob Pinto
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                                  @Rob-Pinto

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                                  • minh chen cuteM
                                    minh chen cute @minh chen cute
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                                    fu**ing kidding me

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                                    • Stone PUBGS
                                      Stone PUBG
                                      last edited by PeterJones

                                      this is amazing i m use many time and it’s help me a lot many people AR using that and it’s give much benefit there are many people ate searching for and download it free notepad++ is free total


                                      moderator: malicious download link deleted; see 2026-Feb-12 post for explanation

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                                      • Chris RichardsonC
                                        Chris Richardson
                                        last edited by

                                        Being someone who found this post when trying to find something for the Mac, I wanted to mention the project I am doing at the moment.

                                        I decided to write something myself, and it will be on the App Store shortly.

                                        https://madmunky.github.io/MacPadPlusPlus-public/

                                        Still lots of work to do, I implemented the features I use most first, so feel free to make feature requests. I love Notepad++, but nothing did what I wanted when I had to switch from Windows to Mac, so the above was created.

                                        This will be 99p, the reason is to cover the Apple developer license needed to publish in the App Store.

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                                        • PeterJonesP
                                          PeterJones
                                          last edited by

                                          Moderator note: with the recent post in this Topic, my attention was drawn here. And I saw that at least one of the most recent links was a malicious download site, so I removed that link. But that has made me revisit all the links in this Topic. Any that are direct links to an actual alternative editor’s official site, or a github page, are left. Ones that are ad-ridden “blogs” with dubious reviews of editors are being removed, because they are all years out-of-date and/or possibly malicious downloads: honestly, if you can type the words “alternative for Notepad++ on Mac”, you can do your own modern websearch and find dozens of those “alternative to” websites which claim to review applictions, and we don’t need this forum to be a link to outdated ad/“review” sites; such links are not helpful to anyone here.

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