Notepad++ port to MAC I found.

[LuaMaster]

For mac users like me, textedit isn't suitable for programming. I searched arround and found this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywh6HlCmtg0
Just go in the comments for the download. It's very heavy though at 451.7MB. You'll need X11 to run it

[slime]

Why not just use Sublime Text or one of the many other OS X-native alternatives?

[Jasoco]

Sublime Text 2 is amazing. So is TextWrangler. No one needs Notepad++ on OS X. There are plenty of native feeling OS X text editors that aren't clunky and non-Mac-like like an X11/XQuartz app.

And they're both much smaller than 400MB combined and don't require jumping through hoops to install.

Notepad++ is overrated.

[Eamonn]

I agree with the above posts. Though is Sublime Text not just a trial until 2 is released? It's about £50 I believe. TextMate is good if you have the money I HATE HATE HATE TextWrangler!! It doesn't have custom themes and it doesn't have custom fonts. The default font for it SUCKS! I use MacVim 90% of the time. It's pretty good So check out MacVim. If you cant you can donate to the developers, but it's fully free to use and you are not restricted to a time limit or a feature limit.

[Jasoco]

Sublime Text 2 is an UNLIMITED "trial" in which it's free and won't limit anything at all and only bugs you every hundred file saves or so.

I loved TextWrangler until I decided to try out ST2 once and for all. I miss some features from TW, but can't switch back because then I'd miss some features from ST2. But ST2 wins by a small margin because of the "project" sidebar I can have. I just wish they'd expand it a bit more. Make it so clicking images would show the image instead of the hex data or whatever it is, let me change the color of the sidebar, (I use a dark theme, why can't the sidebar be dark too?) as well as some other stuff. At first I hated the way it handled find and replace for multiple documents because TW still has the edge there. (It's nice editing the document right from the results window) But now I am used to it. I like the tabs for open documents. The navigation map on the right side is irreplaceable so much that I have a ASCIIArt website bookmarked for creating headers to find main sections of code like Notch does. You know, like this...

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Makes is amazingly easy to find code you need quickly.

I have both complaints and praise for Sublime Text 2. I wish I could post it all but I need to make a list. I've been using it for a year or so now after deciding to try it out for a week. Never went back.

[Plu]

Makes is amazingly easy to find code you need quickly.

Wouldn't it maybe be a better idea to put the code in two different files?

Or use Eclipse for Lua, and get access to the navigation panel to quickly jump to a function? Although I'm not sure if it works on mac.

[Jasoco]

I already have dozens of files. Why would I split it up even more? That's just silly and makes it even harder to find code you're looking for.

And Eclipse is terrible. It's not even a native app and feels completely un-Mac-like. You might as well be using Notepad++ on OS X.

TextWrangler has a pulldown list of all functions in a single file that I had to leave behind when I switched. This is my (And Notch, you know, the guy who created Minecraft.) method for finding my way around all my many files.

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Yes, I know Sublime Text 2 also has this same menu when you press Command+R, but to be honest I always forget it exists. The side map is just easier to get to if you ask me. (I'd like to get to use it more though so I set it to a trackpad gesture in the hopes of maybe teaching myself to use it. Still, I like my big word comment blocks.)

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But at least ST2 has both methods and the app actually looks nice and not like a steaming pile of random crap some corporation designed. (Oracle doesn't know a thing about designing for different platforms. Eclipse is designed for one platform and one platform only without regard for UI rules of the other platforms.)
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[veethree]

I'll just go ahead and throw in my 2 cents. While i do use notepad++ 96.4% of the time on my pc, which is where i do most programming, I don't think getting that on my mac is worth the 400mb download and all that. I just use sublime text on the mac. And while I'm on the topic of sublime text, I must say i find it a bit hard to work with, Not a big fan of how it likes to try to indent my code for me as I'm used to doing that myself. I'm sure that can be disabled somehow, But thus far it hasn't gotten on my nerves enough for me to take the time to find out how to do that.

[Plu]

I already have dozens of files. Why would I split it up even more? That's just silly and makes it even harder to find code you're looking for.

And Eclipse is terrible. It's not even a native app and feels completely un-Mac-like. You might as well be using Notepad++ on OS X.

Well, I've never worked on a Mac, so I don't know how bad that is. But for my dayjob I work in projects with thousands of files, and that works just fine. A good editor does wonders in that regard.

I have Eclipse for Lua now, and it allows you to ctrl+click any variable and jump to its declaration. That works pretty well for keeping track of loads of files. My game is probably running close to dozens and it's still pre-alpha. It'll only get worse, but that's not really a problem. Keeps things organised.

[Jasoco]

I'll just go ahead and throw in my 2 cents. While i do use notepad++ 96.4% of the time on my pc, which is where i do most programming, I don't think getting that on my mac is worth the 400mb download and all that. I just use sublime text on the mac. And while I'm on the topic of sublime text, I must say i find it a bit hard to work with, Not a big fan of how it likes to try to indent my code for me as I'm used to doing that myself. I'm sure that can be disabled somehow, But thus far it hasn't gotten on my nerves enough for me to take the time to find out how to do that.

It can be turned off. But of course as I mentioned, since ST2 doesn't have a GUI for preferences or editing color themes or searching for text you have to do all the editing manually.

But I can't get it to work the way I want it and I hate it when I try to do a if, then, else and when I try to do the else or elseif it indents it, then pushes it to the right place, but as soon as I type the check part of the elseif (elseif x == 3 then) it indents back forcing me to have to manually indent it back to the right place. And turning the feature off indents stupidly. Just let it indent to the same tab position I'm already at dangit! TextWrangler doesn't have this problem. But I live with it because of ST2's extra good features.

If only I could take the best features of TW and put them in ST and remove the stuff I hate. lolololol