Notepad++ for macOS

Native Cocoa fork of Notepad++ for Apple Silicon (and optionally Universal). The Mac shell lives under PowerEditor/mac/ and links Scintilla Cocoa + Lexilla.

Build

Requires macOS 12+ and Xcode Command Line Tools (clang++).

make -f Makefile.mac          # builds build/mac/Notepad++.app (arm64)
make -f Makefile.mac run      # launch
make -f Makefile.mac dmg      # create DMG
make -f Makefile.mac UNIVERSAL=1   # arm64 + x86_64

CMake is also supported via the root CMakeLists.txt if installed.

Features

Multi-tab editing, Open/Save, Find/Replace, syntax highlighting, dark mode, status bar, preferences, split view, document map, macro record/playback, UDL data folder, and a .dylib plugin ABI (NppMac_GetInfo / NppMac_Init / NppMac_Cleanup).

License

Use is governed by the GPL License.

See the Notepad++ official site for the original Windows project.