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Based on our record, CotEditor should be more popular than Geany. It has been mentiond 25 times since March 2021. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.
> One that isn't tied to a specific platform, or preferably even a specific company, and that I trust will still be around until I'm done programming. That is Geany[0]: no opinions, no company affiliations, no editor wars. It has been around forever, works on everything, and is open-source. [0] https://geany.org/. - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago
I just use Geany for everything, it has a long history and has proven itself to be reliable. Source: almost 2 years ago
After trying a bunch of GUI text editors in Linux and on the Mac I gotta say that to me, Geany is the best. Source: about 2 years ago
Have you tried Geany? It's based on Scintilla, just like Notepad++ is (although that's an implementation detail that you don't really need to know to use either of them), which helps it to feel very similar. Source: about 2 years ago
Check out Geany. It's lightweight, cross platform, open source, and supports multiple languages. The download is only 20MB or so. I'm not sure about a keyboard shortcut for comments though. Link: https://geany.org/. Source: about 2 years ago
I've been using CotEditor for a while and I really like it: https://coteditor.com Mac native and open source. - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago
Thanks for writing this up so beautifully. I'm an old Mac user and user Nova daily, mostly for Playdate development. It has been very unstable/crash-prone recently, agreed. The major crasher that lost me much work was fixed in a recent update, so I no longer want to delete the app but I would still appreciate it if they could take the accelerator off and fix all the crashers. I also have the following installed... - Source: Hacker News / 10 months ago
CotEditor - Price: Free Text editor for macOS that features syntax highlighting and a user-friendly interface. Source: 10 months ago
CotEditor, which is like TextEdit except actually useful for non-text documents (e.g. I write a lot of Markdown in it). Source: 12 months ago
CotEditor - Plain text editor but with many more features and a clean macOS UI. Absolutely a must-have for basic file editing (e.g. Markdown). Source: about 1 year ago
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