Notepad++ the extremely popular open source text/code editor that was previously only available for Windows has now been released on the Mac!
I saw some blind folks on Mastodon commenting on this so thought I would give it a try and so far it all seems quite accessible with VoiceOver. I'm on holiday for the next couple of weeks so might not use it a great deal until I am back at work, but I am curious to know how it stacks up so will be certainly using it for some things.
My main editor of choice these days is BBEdit which seems quite good, and I use Smultron sometimes, and TextMate for very specific things. I do like having a selection of text editors available. It didn't seem that long ago that I couldn't find a decent editor on the Mac and now we seem to be getting some choice at long last.
I used to use it all the time on Windows in the days I wasn't thinking about things like screen readers. It was a touch ugly but otherwise a very fast, simple and capable tool and was my raw text editor of choice for many years.
If anyone on here gives it a go, please share your thoughts.
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Constant Vigilance!
I had to throw the Harry Potter joke in there. I say this because I'v heard from film_girl on X (Christina Warren) who is on MacBreak Weekly and other podcasts that this port was not built by the original developers. The app has also had compromised Windows binaries last year as well, so please be careful.
Seems to be not the same thing
https://notepad-plus-plus.org/news/npp-trademark-infringement/
Yeah, uh
After seeing this and this, I don't wanna use this for any much longer. I installed it and thought it was a pretty neet concept, but after seeing how the dev of this behaves when being told what he was doing wrong, just no.