Old news. It’s already been renamed Nextpad++. The only problem was using the name.
And claiming a connection to the original author in the about, but sure
Yeah dragging Don Ho through the mud with his LLM remake, that’s the offensive part.
Nextpad++
Use Kate.
I’ve only had middling luck with KDE apps on macOS. Kate didn’t run, Okular was fine.
It’s no wonder since they are only provided as nightlies. But that’s understandable, if I was a KDE dev I’d also be loathe to buy into Apples ecosystem.
Unfortunately they won’t let me have Linux at work.
I’m in the same boat but I work in a Windows shop. Thank goodness for WSL.
Kate exists on MacOS? Seems like a no-brainer. I discovered it with KDE, of course, and it’s great.
Yeah, you can also run it on Windows. It has replaced all text editors for me on any system.
It has a mac build but last I checked only nightly build were available for mac.
I just tried. I was very … skeptic about a QT app running on the Mac. But yeah, it works quite fine. Minor things like not signing the bundle (that’s on Apple, but you can totally do it with a free dev cert) which you can easily bypass, and some fonts looking small on retina displays (which it’s like, all the recent macs)… it’s pretty rad. And I trust KDE waaaaaaaaaay more than … Zed, VSCode & friends.
regarding the tiny font thing… maybe you can set QT_AUTO_SCREEN_SCALE_FACTOR env variable or something similar in qt’s config file?
I don’t want to lead you wrong, but I believe Kate has been ported to both Mac and Windows.
Too many years on bbedit to change now. But Kate is great, too.
