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Comment by simondotau

3 days ago

The built-in TextEdit (in plain text mode) is also a perfectly cromulent minimum viable text editor.

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krackers  3 days ago

I wonder if anyone has taken the source of TextEdit [1] and added some minor niceties to just make it slightly more convenient for text editing (like adding line numbers).

[1] https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/samplecode/TextE...

  • simondotau  1 day ago

    I find the free edition of BBEdit to be an excellent middle ground between TextEdit and a full-fat IDE.

  • hackermanai  3 days ago

    Not a textedit fork, but I am building a minimal text editor with niceties based on scintilla. So performance wise on par with Notepad++ et al.