[praveenhm]

Excellent work, I am looking for notepad++ equivalent on Mac..

[lastofthemojito]

BBEdit from Bare Bones Software is a longstanding Mac text editor in the same vein as Notepad++, though it isn't open source or fully free to use. Bare Bones used to offer a free text editor for Mac called TextWrangler (with fewer features than BBEdit), but I guess they've now made the free mode of BBEdit their free offering.

http://www.barebones.com/products/bbedit/

[MBCook]

This is what you want. It’s fantastic.

[kzrdude]

How are sublime and textmate doing? Thought there was a lot of better choice than notepad++

[com2kid]

Sublime is way too heavy weight. Notepad++ is that thing I open up when I need to edit a 2GB log file really quick. Or use a regex to fix up a CSV file that somehow got messed up.

Not having Notepad++ on MacOS is a major pain point for me.

Notably Notepad++ is not project/folder based. It is for editing a file.

[have_faith]

> Sublime is way too heavy weight

Damn, sublime is what I use as my light weight editor ha. Never had trouble opening (relatively) large files.

[com2kid]

More in terms of UI.

Notepad++ has what you need to edit a file and not much else, but it also has a decent plugin system.

[have_faith]

ST almost has no UI when opening a single file (no sidebar etc), would be curious how it could be more minimal.

[nicoburns]

Check out the view menu. Pretty much all the UI bar the actual text you’re editing can be easily hidden.

[wolpoli]

> Notably Notepad++ is not project/folder based. It is for editing a file.

I looked and it turns out that Notepad++ does have the ability to open a folder as a workspace. So it's an extra option if it is needed.