Notepad++ Mac Port Renamed Nextpad++ After Trademark Row

[turbineseaplane]

Transmit is one of those apps that looks good, and works well. I have no problems paying a developer for work like that.

All their Apps are fantastic. Love Panic, as well as Rogue Amoeba.

 

[Corefile]

Sounds more like Notepad--

 

[centauratlas]

Gruber makes some excellent points. He doesn't call it this, but the application is what amounts to a transliteration of Notepad++. That comes from an inexperienced developer using LLM coding tools. It's a start.

Everything Gruber criticizes it for can be fixed, however. It's open source so interested people can help make it better. There are already some people doing that.

Edit: I'll stick with VS Code. It's not lightweight, but it's solid.

I still prefer BBEdit. It has been a long time for it, but I like using it.

 

[Yonizzle]

Maybe I'm showing my age, but I'm absolutely repelled by Mac Apps that don't look like Mac Apps.

That screenshot looks like some shareware Windows garbage.
🤮

Heh, if you were Proper Old you’d remember PerversionTracker, a whole blog dedicated to the explosion of Mac Apps with horrible UIs that accompanied the post-MacOS X revival https://web.archive.org/web/20050212071801/http://perversiontracker.com/archives/000438.html

 

[macman01101]

”after trademark dispute.” Fixed it for you.

 

[B4U]

Apple is the world’s largest and most valuable brand. Everyone knows the name.
Notepad++… the average user wonders why someone put two plus signs after the Windows app name. „What does that mean?“

So yes, it was a trademark infringement. But there is a certain difference between Notepad++ and Apple.

That is true, the scale may be different.
But the thing is that they have already been slapped on the wrist once. Anyone would think they should be smarter on the second try. 😆

 

[avkills]

Only got one thing to say....

SubEthaEdit...

 

[RabidMacFan]

“Trademark Row”? I guess the article editor must be English.

 

[ry-guy]

Gruber? I forgot about that guy. I stopped reading his blog after Covid. He became…..different.

 

[zarmanto]

Heh, if you were Proper Old you’d remember PerversionTracker...

I remember when the Mac could run on little more than a floppy disk with a System Folder containing a Finder and System... and Apple hadn't yet unified the version numbers of the two files. That predates anything at all related to MacOS X. I remember the original Mac version of Tetris -- which came with a Control Panel version of the game that you could play with any app open even before MultiFinder was a thing. I remember DiskDoubler, RAMDoubler, Dark Castle, HyperCard, ClarisWorks, After Dark and scads of shareware products (mostly games).

BUT... I had never heard of PerversionTracker until today. Sadly, even those of us who remember A LOT of things about the early days of the Mac might not have used every single random thing that came out on the platform.

 

[Tagbert]

I think I'll just stick with BBEdit. I have a lot more confidence in its code than this frankenapp.

 

[Squuiid]

Nopad--

 

[bg1419]

They've been covering it well before Gruber's post:

Notepad++ Code Editor Comes to Mac After 20-Year Wait [Updated]

The popular Notepad++ coding editor is now available as a native macOS app, following an unofficial open-source community port of the original Windows codebase. The Notepad replacement runs as a universal binary, so it works on both Apple silicon and Intel Macs. Notepad++ has been one of the...

www.macrumors.com

Notepad++ Creator Calls Out 'Fake' Mac App Over Trademark Violation

Notepad++ creator Don Ho said the macOS version of the popular Windows code editor is fake and using the Notepad++ trademark without permission. The unofficial Notepad++ app for macOS In a blog post, Ho said the macOS app is "not authorized, not endorsed, and not affiliated with" the official...

www.macrumors.com

They had to update their first article since originally it suggested this was an official Notepad++ release.

Fair enough; I stand corrected! But I do think MR has a tendency of finding any excuse to post a new article about a given subject if Gruber mentions the topic.

 

[KENESS]

But the thing is that they have already been slapped on the wrist once. Anyone would think they should be smarter on the second try. 😆

Exactly. Proves he always just wanted to steal spotlight from the original for himself because even once called out about it, he still used something that is absolutely as close as possible, right down to the stylistic ++.

Sure, he is "technically" in the clear with the new name. Doesn't mean it isn't in bad taste, though. It says a lot.

 

[platinumaqua]

Uninstalled it after 10 minutes because it felt like a half-baked port. The original Notepad++ is still one of my commonly used programs on my Windows work machine, though

 

[Cheruman]