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Notepad++ void has been successfully filled with many lightweight native editors, some are FOSS, which are quite mature. And with this drama (read: shady, suspicious etc) one would be better served to stay away from it, at least for a while. BBEdit, Sublime, TextMate, TextEdit (yes, it's actually useful in plain-text mode :P), CodeEdit etc. My fav is Su", "context": "", "use_case": "text editing on Mac", "switched_from": "", "story": "Notepad++ Mac Port Renamed Nextpad++ After Trademark Row"}, {"id": 750203296, "item_id": 46887706, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46887706", "by": "bobbylarrybobby", "date": "2026-02-04", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "try CotEditor", "excerpt": "For \u201clooking at a text file with pretty print\u201d, try CotEditor. https://coteditor.com", "context": "", "use_case": "Pretty-print and view text files", "switched_from": "", "story": "Xcode 26.3 unlocks the power of agentic coding"}, {"id": 744160642, "item_id": 46510040, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46510040", "by": "oneeyedpigeon", "date": "2026-01-06", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "good markdown support (coteditor)", "excerpt": "Different user, but I prefer to use different editors for: - project work, i.e. GUI, multiple files, with LSP integration (zed) - one-off/drive-by edits, i.e. terminal, small, fast, don't care much about features (vim) - non-code writing, i. e. 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Notepad++ void has been successfully filled with many lightweight native editors, some are FOSS, which are quite mature. And with this drama (read: shady, suspicious etc) one would be better served to stay away from it, at least for a while. BBEdit, Sublime, TextMate, TextEdit (yes, it's actually useful in plain-text mode :P), CodeEdit etc. My fav is Su", "context": "", "use_case": "text editing on Mac", "switched_from": "", "story": "Notepad++ Mac Port Renamed Nextpad++ After Trademark Row"}, {"id": 750203296, "item_id": 46887706, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46887706", "by": "bobbylarrybobby", "date": "2026-02-04", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "try CotEditor", "excerpt": "For \u201clooking at a text file with pretty print\u201d, try CotEditor. https://coteditor.com", "context": "", "use_case": "Pretty-print and view text files", "switched_from": "", "story": "Xcode 26.3 unlocks the power of agentic coding"}, {"id": 744160642, "item_id": 46510040, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46510040", "by": "oneeyedpigeon", "date": "2026-01-06", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "good markdown support (coteditor)", "excerpt": "Different user, but I prefer to use different editors for: - project work, i.e. GUI, multiple files, with LSP integration (zed) - one-off/drive-by edits, i.e. terminal, small, fast, don't care much about features (vim) - non-code writing, i. e. GUI, different theme (light), good markdown support (coteditor) I don't like big complex software, so I stay away from IDEs; ideally, I'd like to drop zed for something simple", "context": "", "use_case": "non-code writing", "switched_from": "", "story": "I switched from VSCode to Zed"}]}