Notepad3 VS TextMate

I use Notepad3 to stay as close to vanilla as possible but to fix the idiotic drawbacks of Windows Notepad.

Notepad3 is actively maintained and has many improvements, BTW.

https://github.com/rizonesoft/Notepad3

The current, active continuation is Notepad3: https://github.com/rizonesoft/Notepad3

I prefer the lighter replacements (notepad2, notepad3, metapad) on Windows, simply because Notepad++ seems to always have something to update when I start it on a server. Otherwise it's fine, but not a CLI editor.

Already using notepad3 on my systems but that doesn't help when remoting to somewhere else.

If you run into any other issues they have an active github https://github.com/rizonesoft/Notepad3/issues and the developer seems to fix things quickly.

I mostly work on MacOS these days and previously my general purpose text editor wax Textmate: https://github.com/textmate/textmate

Last official release was 2021, so I looked for something more regularely updated, and found CudaText. Definitely very Sublime-ish, and I like it so far.

Textmate 2.0 got open-sourced https://github.com/textmate/textmate but it looks pretty much abandoned/finished.

If you want something like TextMate maybe use TextMate? https://macromates.com

Use a native editor. VS Code is IMHO awful. Someone mentioned Sublime which is fast and has some nice features, but its non-native UI is IMHO ugly and clumsy. You might like it for similarity to VS Code, I guess. If you want something much more "Mac", though: https://macromates.com

I know no one talks about it anymore but TextMate 2 is still actively being developed and I find it excellent.

https://macromates.com/

TextMate is a well-known code editor for developers who code on a Mac system.

See, VSCode itself utilizes grammar files called “tmLanguage” files to tokenize your code. This tokenizer is borrowed from TextMate.