Alternative for Notepad++ on Mac
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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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Opensource CotEditor: https://coteditor.com/
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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 -
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.
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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++ alternativesfor Mac or Windows and you are free to choose any of them according to your own choice.
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fu**ing kidding me
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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
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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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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.
