CodeEdit: Building a free, open-source code editor for macOS

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  • CotEditor

    Lightweight Plain-Text Editor for macOS

  • CodeEdit

    CodeEdit App for macOS – Elevate your code editing experience. Open source, free forever.

  • SurveyJS

    Open-Source JSON Form Builder to Create Dynamic Forms Right in Your App. With SurveyJS form UI libraries, you can build and style forms in a fully-integrated drag & drop form builder, render them in your JS app, and store form submission data in any backend, inc. PHP, ASP.NET Core, and Node.js.

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  • meld

    Meld (by noamraph)

  • Visual Studio Code

    Visual Studio Code

  • My own thoughts on it are that yes, that is definitely something that should be user-controllable, but as far as I know it's not possible in VS Code. I remember the old issue below, which was closed without actually fixing that.

    Personally, though, I've learned to live with it, so it no longer bothers me, except in principle. ;-)

    https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/74798

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    VS Code in the browser

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        - https://github.com/coder/code-server

  • WorkOS

    The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

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