TextMate VS NotepadNext

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.

:*(

> 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.