Now please hold my beer while I head over to the HeidiSQL forum to deliver a similar speech. In Mac desktops, buyers get TextEdit as the textual ITunes for Mac iTunes is a free application for. So with a good conversion and reasonable pricing, it should be possible to finance the work, and maybe an extra Starbucks once in a while? I know I’d buy it immediately out of my own pocket if it was avaiable, and I can’t be alone. Restore lost Notepad files from previous version. While many Mac users are happy using TextEdit or have employed hacks to make it behave more like Notepad, others want the real deal: a way to run Notepad on Mac. And after reading the “poop factory” sentiment from another (legendary) post, I can see why a partnership with a commercial development studio is not desirable.īut maybe there are other options, like involving other independent developers? Nobody likes working for free, but luckily Apple fanbois are used to paying for everything, all the way down to ringtones for their phones. On the Mac side, users have the option to use TextEditwhich is essentially the Mac equivalent to Windows Notepad and WordPad combinedor a third-party application. My colleagues look at me like I am from another planet when I trashtalk their Atom, vCode, textMate, brackets, bbedit etc, but they just can’t get the job done as efficiently as I can with notepad++.Īs Notepad++ is heavily reliant on Win32, I can understand what kind of undertaking it would be to rebuild it from the ground up. After being disappointed with at least 10 different, promising native editors, I got notepad++ up and running somewhat acceptable, but not great.

IT dept recently forced a m1 macbook on me, as I was the last one clinging to my trusty (but old) windows laptop.

Notepad mac