I used to use EditPad when I used Windows. There was something that royally pissed me off about it, but I can’t recall now. I know there was kind of a shenanigans with the name. EditPad Lite was free and there was an EditPad Pro, but IIRC the free one was just fine for most people (and I do believe in paying for software you enjoy using). I dunno, it did something, but now, mostly I just remember it being very good.
I have a Mac now and we have TextEdit. It’s never made me want more from a notepad app. Notepad used to suck in Windows. We have it at work and I quite like it. It has Markdown support, but you can disable that if you want. It also has Copilot AI in it, but that can also be disabled. It has Dark Mode which is pretty much all I wanted from my notepad app. I actually quite like my Windows 11 setup at work, but I like my Macs at home a bit better. I also know I don’t have much room to criticise Windows if I’m not running Linux, and there’s no point in bragging about Linux from a Mint or Ubuntu installation; these days you kinda have to use Arch (which you built from source) to really call yourself a Linux user. The rest of us are just plebeians.
Of course if you’re using N++ as an IDE, that’s different. I don’t even want line numbers (visual distraction).
Huh. Notepad++ is only for Windows?
I used to use EditPad when I used Windows. There was something that royally pissed me off about it, but I can’t recall now. I know there was kind of a shenanigans with the name. EditPad Lite was free and there was an EditPad Pro, but IIRC the free one was just fine for most people (and I do believe in paying for software you enjoy using). I dunno, it did something, but now, mostly I just remember it being very good.
I have a Mac now and we have TextEdit. It’s never made me want more from a notepad app. Notepad used to suck in Windows. We have it at work and I quite like it. It has Markdown support, but you can disable that if you want. It also has Copilot AI in it, but that can also be disabled. It has Dark Mode which is pretty much all I wanted from my notepad app. I actually quite like my Windows 11 setup at work, but I like my Macs at home a bit better. I also know I don’t have much room to criticise Windows if I’m not running Linux, and there’s no point in bragging about Linux from a Mint or Ubuntu installation; these days you kinda have to use Arch (which you built from source) to really call yourself a Linux user. The rest of us are just plebeians.
Of course if you’re using N++ as an IDE, that’s different. I don’t even want line numbers (visual distraction).