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  1. 👀 macOS port of Notepad++ called out for trademark violation

    「 It's not the fork that's the problem, it's the attempt to make it look official, says original Notepad++ dev Don Ho 」

    theregister.com/2026/05/04/not

    #opensource #notepadpp #trademark

  2. @thias

    I can only recommend to use #notepadpp and the little option at the top that makes non ASCII visible as coloured blocks with the name of that char within it e.g. <CR><LF>

    All text editors and IDEs should have that option enabled and enable it by default.

    That would effectively prevent these issues here...

    #coding #unicode #texteditor #toolchain #computersecurity

  3. @thias

    I can only recommend to use #notepadpp and the little option at the top that makes non ASCII visible as coloured blocks with the name of that char within it e.g. <CR><LF>

    All text editors and IDEs should have that option enabled and enable it by default.

    That would effectively prevent these issues here...

    #coding #unicode #texteditor #toolchain #computersecurity

  4. @thias

    I can only recommend to use #notepadpp and the little option at the top that makes non ASCII visible as coloured blocks with the name of that char within it e.g. <CR><LF>

    All text editors and IDEs should have that option enabled and enable it by default.

    That would effectively prevent these issues here...

    #coding #unicode #texteditor #toolchain #computersecurity

  5. @thias

    I can only recommend to use #notepadpp and the little option at the top that makes non ASCII visible as coloured blocks with the name of that char within it e.g. <CR><LF>

    All text editors and IDEs should have that option enabled and enable it by default.

    That would effectively prevent these issues here...

    #coding #unicode #texteditor #toolchain #computersecurity

  6. @thias

    I can only recommend to use #notepadpp and the little option at the top that makes non ASCII visible as coloured blocks with the name of that char within it e.g. <CR><LF>

    All text editors and IDEs should have that option enabled and enable it by default.

    That would effectively prevent these issues here...

    #coding #unicode #texteditor #toolchain #computersecurity

  7. ⚠️ Notepad++ Hijacked by State-Sponsored Hackers

    「 The exact technical mechanism remains under investigation, though the compromise occured at the hosting provider level rather than through vulnerabilities in Notepad++ code itself. Traffic from certain targeted users was selectively redirected to attacker-controlled served malicious update manifests 」

    notepad-plus-plus.org/news/hij

    #notepadpp #china #opensource #cybersecurity

  8. @fooker @filippo

    Besides using a literal Hex editor is there any console based tool to look at a text file without it parsing control and escape codes? Like @don-ho.bsky.social's #Notepadpp but for the CLI?

  9. had to configure #windows today and after downloading exe-files from the internet, i installed stuff like #notepadpp, #7zip, #vlc,… all the things i know from the long gone past came back to me.it gave me chill seeing these win3.11 dialogues again and the different fonts, blurry or broken anti-aliasing, i don't know.

    I am so happy to be able to work on #linux only. A #floss system that brings all base applications, works #ootb and supports #openFormats by default.

    …and it has a package manager

  10. had to configure #windows today and after downloading exe-files from the internet, i installed stuff like #notepadpp, #7zip, #vlc,… all the things i know from the long gone past came back to me.it gave me chill seeing these win3.11 dialogues again and the different fonts, blurry or broken anti-aliasing, i don't know.

    I am so happy to be able to work on #linux only. A #floss system that brings all base applications, works #ootb and supports #openFormats by default.

    …and it has a package manager

  11. CW: Linux desktops: Am I a good GNOME candidate?

    Most the progs I use have native Linux versions or equivalents (though I think it's a bummer that Notepad++ doesn't have a native Linux version, though maybe Notepad PP will work for me). And M$Word has some fancier find-replace functions I need for ebook formatting (and why can't LibreOffice map CTRL+ALT+- for a proper em-dash, honestly??).

    #Linux #NotepadPP #Word #LinuxCurious