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Also, usually on Mac, you have Command key that is used instead of Control key for common keyboard tasks.

Since it is not a MacOS native app, the user experience will not be as smooth as other Mac apps.

So, I ended up making a video tutorial about it. I have had the same requirement when I wanted to use Notepad++ on my iMac. However, you can use Wine bottler or even PlayOnMac app (Free) on Mac to install Notepad++ on Mac. Good luck.Įdit: corrected Wine vs WineHQ, linked to the MacOS-specific WineHQ page, and switched to “Wine” instead of As PeterJones pointed out Notepad++ is a Windows native application. If you want to stick with Notepad++, then the advice I’ve already given is the best advice I can give. I am not a Mac user, and this is not a Mac forum, so here is not the best place for talking about Mac alternatives. I am 100% positive there are many, many editors on Mac for which that is true. What I need is “search with regex and mark lines”

If you want Notepad++ to work on your Mac, you will have to use Wine for your architecture, and pester the Wine developers if they don’t work properly on the ARM Mac.Ĭomplaining to us Notepad++ users won’t help you accomplish your goals. If Wine were 100% effective, then having a Wine installed on your Mac for the right architecture and installing the right-architecture Notepad++ into that Wine environment would be sufficient. Notepad++ is a perfectly valid Windows application, and has executables for 32bit Intel-compatible, 64bit Intel-compatible, and ARM architectures. And the Notepad++ developers are not Mac developers, and are not likely going to learn Mac development just for this Notepad++ is a Windows application, and always will be.Īs I said last month, if Notepad++-through-Wine doesn’t work on an ARM Mac, the fault lies in Wine (available for Mac from WineHQ), not in Notepad++. The Notepad++ developers aren’t in it for the money, since they get none from Notepad++.