Notepad++ replacement for mac

[Tythus]

I love Notepad++ on windows, but I can't find anything that fits the same niche it filled on Mac. I know you can do some wine hax to get it running, but I want a real mac supported program any ideas?

 

[Tythus]

I use Visual Studio Code, as do most developers I work with who use macOS.

While I love VS Code when I am coding, I find that for the reasons I used notepad++; it's too much as by the time I've opened VS Code and all my 70 million plugins have loaded, I could have already finished what I would have done on Notepad++.

I think that’s the sort of thing TextMate does as well.

TextMate: Text editor for macOS

macromates.com

I'll give it a look-see.

Another vote for vscode here

Are there any specific notepad++ features you need?

The main uses I had for Notepad++ were either:

1. A scratch pad for me to dump things into as I worked on whatever
2. I had received a JSON/XML/YAML etc. and I needed to do the following against
   1. evaluate
   2. validate
   3. edit
   4. create
   5. view like this
      
      
3. receive log files from exceptions/etc. and go through them, being able to tag/mark suspect sections and review those later

 

[Tythus]

yeah i guess vscode prob is good for that but isn't as lightweight.. I don't really notice it starting up mind.

I've used textmate also in the past and its a capable text editor.

a colleague of mine swears by sublime text too if you haven't tried it.

oh I love sublime <3