macvim VS NotepadNext

I sure hope mainline Vim isn't dead. I keep trying NeoVim but I prefer using Vim in a GUI and no NeoVim GUI I've found has the level of polish that MacVim [1] has. VimR [2] comes close but keep finding myself going back to MacVim.

[1] https://macvim.org/

You should file an issue at https://github.com/macvim-dev/macvim/issues/. As long as you provide enough info to help other people help you, you will get a response.

This is already part of the official Vim (through the patches). The various Linux distributions and MacOS ship Vim with various patches. So this will be available whenever these distributions decide to include this patch. If you want to use the latest Vim without waiting for the official distribution, you can download it from: Windows: https://github.com/vim/vim-win32-installer/releases MacOS: https://github.com/macvim-dev/macvim/releases Linux: You can build the latest sources.

Get it there

The Mac Vim repository is synced up to Vim 9.0.0001 (https://github.com/macvim-dev/macvim/commit/adfe7be38282da7d772cca025ebbe5080085ef6f). If you have compiler installed in your system, you can build the sources. I am not sure why the corresponding release package is not made available.

gVim (only on windows/linux) with a minimal config is my preferred. Fast but a few powerful built-in vim features like search, replace, syntax highlighting, spellchecking, auto-indent etc. It loads in about 1.5s on my machine and renders the text nicely.

Maybe take a look at https://github.com/macvim-dev/macvim on mac, perhaps someone can comment about the state of macvim?

Mac Vim - editing text / code

vim (aka Vi IMproved) is a highly efficient text editor that has inspired other editors like it, most notably MacVim (which I will refer to as vim from here on) and gVim.

:*(

> Plugin compatibility between NN and N++ is not possible.

https://github.com/dail8859/NotepadNext/issues/422

Shame, since N++'s plugin ecosystem holds quite the treasure trove of functionality.

https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/nppPluginList/blob/mast...

there is another OpenSource - Cross-Platform (Windows, Linux, etc) - Notepad/Notepad++ Alternative:

https://github.com/dail8859/NotepadNext

There's NotepadNext (https://github.com/dail8859/NotepadNext), it's fairly new and based on Notepad++, personally, at the moment I use Atom.

Or alternatively there is a cross-platform project here that attempts to remake Notepad++ but as cross platform (Notepad Next).

https://github.com/dail8859/NotepadNext

> And finally, it's always great to see Lazarus software, it's one of the nicer ways to create GUI software and largely sidesteps some of the framework related issues that other languages face...

The insanity involved around hating on Object Pascal is just a damn shame. Lazarus is fantastic, for the desktop. And so are a lot of software projects created with Lazarus. The few gripes that I have with the project, is the very odd refusal to fully embrace mobile development.

They have a kind of half-way solution, for just Android and not iOS, from an independent developer not on the Lazarus team and who they seem to want to keep at an arm's length. I don't know if Embarcadero (Delphi) is paying them to not touch mobile development, but it's quite weird that they don't want to go in that very obvious direction. Lazarus as a complete solution for both the desktop and mobile, would have people shook. However, the clock is ticking, because there are a number of more comprehensive desktop and mobile development solutions coming. Lazarus should have and arguably could have come out with their combined solution years ago.

Check out Notepad Next for Linux. Everyone is talking about Notepadqq but in my experience it seems to be outdated and not feature complete. I enjoy Notepad Next much more.