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"Notepad++ for Mac" release is disavowed by the creator of the original (arstechnica.com)
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[–] Joelk111@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

Kate exists on MacOS? Seems like a no-brainer. I discovered it with KDE, of course, and it's great.

[–] squaresinger@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah, you can also run it on Windows. It has replaced all text editors for me on any system.

[–] FrostyPolicy@suppo.fi 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It has a mac build but last I checked only nightly build were available for mac.

[–] mokey@therock.fraggle-rock.org 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I just tried. I was very ... skeptic about a QT app running on the Mac. But yeah, it works quite fine. Minor things like not signing the bundle (that's on Apple, but you can totally do it with a free dev cert) which you can easily bypass, and some fonts looking small on retina displays (which it's like, all the recent macs)... it's pretty rad. And I trust KDE waaaaaaaaaay more than .. Zed, VSCode & friends.

[–] hexagonwin@lemmy.today 1 points 2 weeks ago

regarding the tiny font thing.. maybe you can set QT_AUTO_SCREEN_SCALE_FACTOR env variable or something similar in qt's config file?

[–] djdarren@piefed.social 1 points 2 weeks ago

Yep, I use it on my Mac. I also use Konsole instead of Terminal. I wish Dolphin was available, but sadly it's not.

[–] marlowe221@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

I don’t want to lead you wrong, but I believe Kate has been ported to both Mac and Windows.