I really really like Notepad++. The other day I bought myself an imac. So here's my question. Do you know if it is possible to run Notepad++ in Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)? If not, are there any plans to port Notepad++ to Mac OS X?
Thanks in advance for your reply,
Bart
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can you ballpark about how much memory VMWare Fusion takes? I wonder if Parallels is better and why there is a big hit anyway (do you mean because two OS's (Mac and Windows w/xtra layer) are in memory rather than some other overhead)?
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Well, you in turn will get no sympathy at all, because you are prejudiced. The problem is that someone doesn't look for answers before asking questions. That's not so smart, even for someone who seems to be smart enough to use a non-M$ product or OS.
But let me remind you, it's not at all about the OS, even if one is better than the other. It's what the user does with it. I guess you yourself are not so smart a person, then.
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I'm pretty sure there are no plans to port N++ to Mac OS X.
But your new iMac should have an Intel processor, so N++ should run just fine in the Windows compatibility box, whatever it's called, that Apple provides. I don't know if that Windows compatibility box comes by default with Mac OS X 10.5 or if it requires a separate purchase.
Regards.
Greg
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Hmm...
It's MacOSX based on FreeBSD, and there're a lot of GNU portings in it.
However, AFAIK, the graphical render system is not X11 but postscript, so I'm not sure if there is WINE porting.
Does anyone know better about this issue?
Don
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"Boot Camp" is the name of the Windows compatibility box I had in mind, but it's not quite what I'd hoped. It requires a separately purchased license to Windows, and (even worse) it looks like you cannot boot both systems at the same time -- you boot either Mac OS X or Windows, but not both. So with this software, you cannot have N++ running while running Mac OS X.
Regards.
Greg
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> Can't WINE run on a mac? Notepad++ works just fine in wine.
WINE is an X11 program, and does work on OS X 10.4.x. Unfortunately, there are reports of problems with X11 under OS X 10.5.x (Leopard). That said, I have not tried to run Wine under OS X just to run Notepad++. I don't do a lot of coding on my MacBookPro, and find rText (a Java-based editor) does what I need there.
While you can run Bootcamp, it requires you to have to dual boot your Mac. You still need a licensed copy of Windows to be able to do this. Another alternative for this would be to use one of the virtual machine programs - VMWare, Parallels, VirtualBox, etc. Again though, you must have a licensed copy of Windows to create your virtual machine. I use Parallels on my MacBookPro, also VMWare player (I make my VMWare virtual machines on a Windows box).
Bob.
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Hi guys,
I really really like Notepad++. The other day I bought myself an imac. So here's my question. Do you know if it is possible to run Notepad++ in Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)? If not, are there any plans to port Notepad++ to Mac OS X?
Thanks in advance for your reply,
Bart
You can run Notepad++ under VMWare Fusion.But it will cost lots of memory..sigh
can you ballpark about how much memory VMWare Fusion takes? I wonder if Parallels is better and why there is a big hit anyway (do you mean because two OS's (Mac and Windows w/xtra layer) are in memory rather than some other overhead)?
There's jedit for all your platforms. It's free and has 144 developers instead of 6 for N++. Looking at these numbers, N++ is remarkable.
https://sourceforge.net/projects/jedit/
While the Mac OS is way way way better, you won't get any "sympathy" here.
Well, you in turn will get no sympathy at all, because you are prejudiced. The problem is that someone doesn't look for answers before asking questions. That's not so smart, even for someone who seems to be smart enough to use a non-M$ product or OS.
But let me remind you, it's not at all about the OS, even if one is better than the other. It's what the user does with it. I guess you yourself are not so smart a person, then.
I'm pretty sure there are no plans to port N++ to Mac OS X.
But your new iMac should have an Intel processor, so N++ should run just fine in the Windows compatibility box, whatever it's called, that Apple provides. I don't know if that Windows compatibility box comes by default with Mac OS X 10.5 or if it requires a separate purchase.
Regards.
Greg
Hmm...
It's MacOSX based on FreeBSD, and there're a lot of GNU portings in it.
However, AFAIK, the graphical render system is not X11 but postscript, so I'm not sure if there is WINE porting.
Does anyone know better about this issue?
Don
"Boot Camp" is the name of the Windows compatibility box I had in mind, but it's not quite what I'd hoped. It requires a separately purchased license to Windows, and (even worse) it looks like you cannot boot both systems at the same time -- you boot either Mac OS X or Windows, but not both. So with this software, you cannot have N++ running while running Mac OS X.
Regards.
Greg
Can't WINE run on a mac? Notepad++ works just fine in wine.
> Can't WINE run on a mac? Notepad++ works just fine in wine.
WINE is an X11 program, and does work on OS X 10.4.x. Unfortunately, there are reports of problems with X11 under OS X 10.5.x (Leopard). That said, I have not tried to run Wine under OS X just to run Notepad++. I don't do a lot of coding on my MacBookPro, and find rText (a Java-based editor) does what I need there.
While you can run Bootcamp, it requires you to have to dual boot your Mac. You still need a licensed copy of Windows to be able to do this. Another alternative for this would be to use one of the virtual machine programs - VMWare, Parallels, VirtualBox, etc. Again though, you must have a licensed copy of Windows to create your virtual machine. I use Parallels on my MacBookPro, also VMWare player (I make my VMWare virtual machines on a Windows box).
Bob.
Well, I do run wine just for notepad++ on ubuntu, heh.
And what about SciTE (SCIntilla based Text Editor), which runs on OS X?