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Sublime is way too heavy weight. Notepad++ is that thing I open up when I need to edit a 2GB log file really quick. Or use a regex to fix up a CSV file that somehow got messed up.

Not having Notepad++ on MacOS is a major pain point for me.

Notably Notepad++ is not project/folder based. It is for editing a file.



> Sublime is way too heavy weight

Damn, sublime is what I use as my light weight editor ha. Never had trouble opening (relatively) large files.


More in terms of UI.

Notepad++ has what you need to edit a file and not much else, but it also has a decent plugin system.


ST almost has no UI when opening a single file (no sidebar etc), would be curious how it could be more minimal.


Check out the view menu. Pretty much all the UI bar the actual text you’re editing can be easily hidden.


> Notably Notepad++ is not project/folder based. It is for editing a file.

I looked and it turns out that Notepad++ does have the ability to open a folder as a workspace. So it's an extra option if it is needed.




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