
Note: now all shortcuts behave as though it is a native windows application – You need to remap your mind again for all those shortcuts!! $wine ~/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/Notepad++/notepad++.exe application should have got installed in the folder "~/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/Notepad++" Step 2: Install ‘wine’ to enable the magicįrom the ‘Terminal’ – execute the below command –įollow through the instructions and complete the installation – this is the all familiar windows installer. Step 1: Get homebrew package manager if you already do not have itįollow the instructions on-screen to complete the installation

Is it worth the effort? What are the challenges? Let’s looks at the second one – how do we get notepad++ on macOS?. Sublime Text (requires license), Atom (not feature rich as notepad++), Visual Studio Code(bulky for a text editor), TextEdit (like the WordPad in windows). (2) lack of ‘cool’ apps – notepad++, etc. You will be forced to learn most shortcuts.Īnd – the ‘butterfly’ keyboard itself (the ‘tuk-tuk’ keyboard – noise all around) rants on this requires another blog post altogether!!

(1) different keyboard layout – it is not very simple – you cannot directly replace in your mind-map – ‘command’ with ‘windows’ key’, ‘option’ with ‘alt’ and ‘control’ with ‘Ctrl’. Switching from Windows to macOS became a true challenge initially.
