coteditor/CotEditor
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Lightweight Plain Text Editor for macOS
7 mentions on Hacker News by 7 people: 2 stories, 5 comments · first 2017-09-12 · latest 2026-05-14
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…and then there's CotEditor and these are just too good. https://github.com/subethaedit/SubEthaEdit https://github.com/coteditor/CotEditor https://github.com/CodeEditApp/CodeEdit (Note: And nope, Xcode isn't that. It's a monstrosity devs…
comment by crossroadsguy · 2026-05-14 · in Notepad++ Mac Port Renamed Nextpad++ After Trademark Row -
CotEditor is quite good with very large files. https://github.com/coteditor/CotEditor
comment by indigodaddy · 2025-09-24 · in Zed's Pricing Has Changed: LLM Usage Is Now Token-Based -
Closest Notepad++ alternative I found on Mac was CotEditor - https://github.com/coteditor/CotEditor . Has all the basic features apart from plugin support.
comment by aunlead · 2024-11-01 · in Notepad++ is 21 years old -
Checkout: https://github.com/coteditor/CotEditor
comment by hidden_sheepman · 2022-06-24 · in Ask HN: Well-written open source Swift Mac apps to learn from? -
CotEditor ( https://coteditor.com ) is a well written, open-source ( https://github.com/coteditor/CotEditor ), lightweight, native (Swift), lightweight plain-text editor that many Chinese, Japanese, and Korean developers love to use. I…
comment by guessmyname · 2022-03-21 · in CodeEdit: Building a free, open-source code editor for macOS