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Notepad++ creator threatens legal action over macOS port of open-source app — developer says port is fine, but branding is too far (www.tomshardware.com)
submitted 6 months ago by to c/opensource@programming.dev
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[–] 20 points 6 months ago (7 children)

I always have Notepad++ on my Windows machines and admit to running it in Wine on my Mac. But my go to plain text editor on my Macs has always been BBEdit. I had assumed this was legit until this new info came out, I can see why the creator is pissed. The vibe coding just makes it worse.

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  • [–] 8 points 6 months ago (5 children)

    notepad++ is one of my 'must haves' on any pc. even with how shitty it looks on linux, it still does everything i expect it to. irfanview is another, there simply isn't anything native to linux that has its feature set and ease-of-use. i gave up my paint.net and paintshop pro for linux, but i need the other two to work.

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  • [–] 14 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    (Serious question not trying to be a dick)

    What is so special about notepad++ that no other editors have? I have not used it extensively myself (and last time I ever even did was probably 10yr ago), so I don't know it well enough, I actually can't remember what made me use it over the stock notepad back when I did use windows but it must have been some feature.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago

    It used to be leagues better than the default on windows, having plugins, hex-view for binary files, actual history instead of one undo, ability to open big files without much trouble, formatting and syntax highlight. At least, those were the reasons I used it, nowadays I still install it and set as default, but don't use that much. And I moved to Linux anyway

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  • [–] 6 points 6 months ago

    It's just not great in Wine. I ran across someone else's post just now asking for any other editor that can do comparison editing like it because of that fact. It's so useful in Windows, but graphically it's a pain in anything else, and really needs a port. A legit one.

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