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Technology => The Cult of Mac => Topic started by: equanimity on October 02, 2014, 04:06:02 pm

Title: Best application similar to notepad++?
Post by: equanimity on October 02, 2014, 04:06:02 pm
For OSX, of course.
Title: Re: Best application similar to notepad++?
Post by: Bart the General on October 02, 2014, 04:07:21 pm
Text edit but watch for auto correct
Title: Re: Best application similar to notepad++?
Post by: Ninja on October 02, 2014, 04:09:59 pm
I have Notepad ++.  I just downloaded Sublime Text 2.  Fuck your OSX.
Title: Re: Best application similar to notepad++?
Post by: LostStranger on October 02, 2014, 04:10:36 pm
Macvim.... Okay I'm just kidding, how about gedit?
Title: Re: Best application similar to notepad++?
Post by: degenerate matter on October 02, 2014, 04:27:37 pm
Erase OSX and install a real operating system.
Title: Re: Best application similar to notepad++?
Post by: aldra on October 03, 2014, 04:44:13 am
http://wiki.geany.org/howtos/osx/running

Geany is my favourite code editor, looks like it's available in macports.
Title: Re: Best application similar to notepad++?
Post by: equanimity on October 09, 2014, 02:28:23 am
Macvim.... Okay I'm just kidding, how about gedit?

(http://i.imgur.com/wT9gRAy.png)

:/

I'm kinda bad at this stuff.  That Geany thing looks really complicated to set up.  I'm just doing some basic C++ stuff, but the colors in notepad++ help a ton!
Title: Re: Best application similar to notepad++?
Post by: theKit on October 09, 2014, 02:41:46 am
Why don't you just run it in an emulator.

Why are you using OSX anyway?! Female, vegetarian, Buddhist, feminist, OSX user... You're a god damn hipster aren't you? Admit it!! 


[edit]

If you're pansexual I will murder proots so help me Ghd
Title: Re: Best application similar to notepad++?
Post by: aldra on October 09, 2014, 02:42:52 am
"female"

doesn't osx have native xcode anyway? that should be close enough to what you want
Title: Re: Best application similar to notepad++?
Post by: Lanny on October 09, 2014, 03:19:29 am
"female"

doesn't osx have native xcode anyway? that should be close enough to what you want

xcode is crazy heavy and as far as I can tell no one really likes it. People use it because build tools for apple's various platforms are inseparably bound to it.

Anyway, Sublime Text or its spiritual successor Atom seem like a good fit, pretty lightweight and unintrusive although maybe a little more tooled up than notepad++ (hard to say since I haven't used notepad++ in years). Textmate seems to be in the same general space as the other two but I kinda got the impression sublime stole most of its users.
Title: Re: Best application similar to notepad++?
Post by: equanimity on October 09, 2014, 03:23:39 am
Why don't you just run it in an emulator.

Why are you using OSX anyway?! Female, vegetarian, Buddhist, feminist, OSX user... You're a god damn hipster aren't you? Admit it!! 


[edit]

If you're pansexual I will murder proots so help me Ghd

I'm running notepad++ on a virtual instance of Windows but sometimes I don't want to deal with all that.  Not a huge deal I guess, just wish I could do my first attempt on OSX.  Windows is different!

And if I had to label myself, I'd say I'm omnisexual.

(http://i.imgur.com/oF2OOmK.jpg)

;)

"female"

doesn't osx have native xcode anyway? that should be close enough to what you want

Does it?  Lemme look around...

"female"

doesn't osx have native xcode anyway? that should be close enough to what you want

xcode is crazy heavy and as far as I can tell no one really likes it. People use it because build tools for apple's various platforms are inseparably bound to it.

Anyway, Sublime Text or its spiritual successor Atom seem like a good fit, pretty lightweight and unintrusive although maybe a little more tooled up than notepad++ (hard to say since I haven't used notepad++ in years). Textmate seems to be in the same general space as the other two but I kinda got the impression sublime stole most of its users.

Cooool if the Xcode thing doesn't work out I'll look for these.  Thanks, guys!
Title: Re: Best application similar to notepad++?
Post by: LostStranger on October 09, 2014, 03:25:39 am

(http://i.imgur.com/wT9gRAy.png)

:/

I'm kinda bad at this stuff.  That Geany thing looks really complicated to set up.  I'm just doing some basic C++ stuff, but the colors in notepad++ help a ton!

I'm sorry I cannot help you at this because I personally do not own a mac. I recommend gedit because it is what I use extensively until I switch into notepad++. I'm not sure what is the problem in gedit mac installation but it seems that your version of gedit may not be compatible with you osx version.
Title: Re: Best application similar to notepad++?
Post by: equanimity on October 09, 2014, 03:27:29 am
Aww don't worry about it!  I probably did something wrong is all.  Thanks for the advice :)
Title: Re: Best application similar to notepad++?
Post by: zok jr. on October 09, 2014, 05:19:44 am
I just reboot into Windows boot camp ftw