Windows Notepad is, more or less, the Windows peer to MacOS’s TextEdit — the built-in system text editor. For years, it was really basic — so much more basic than TextEdit that it engendered no affection. You don’t see paeans to Notepad in The New Yorker . Recently though, Microsoft has started beefing it up, culminating last year when they added fucking Markdown support . Which still blows my mind. Notepad++ is a longstanding open source (GPL) Windows text editor by Don Ho , which debuted back in 2003 . Just adding “++” to the name might be misleading. The name implies that it’s like Microsoft’s Notepad plus a little more. But Notepad++ is in fact a wholly independent programming text editor, with a rich plugin library. It doesn’t resemble Microsoft’s Notepad much at all anymore. It’s over two decades old but remains quite popular. To some extent Notepad++ is sorta kinda the Windows peer to BBEdit . Nextpad++ is something new, from Andrey Letov . It’s a Mac port of the Notepad++ GPL code.…