Oct 6, 2026 · 12 min read
The Mac editor I built because I missed Notepad
I missed Windows Notepad on my Mac, so I built a boring Swift editor and learned what plain text, recovery, Unicode, and private restore require.
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macos
6 published posts with this tag.
Oct 6, 2026 · 1 min read
Wrap NSTextView for a plain-text SwiftUI editor
A complete SwiftUI wrapper around AppKit NSTextView with plain-text enforcement, word wrap, selection callbacks, and first-responder focus.
Oct 6, 2026 · 1 min read
Persist tab sessions without storing document text
A complete Swift session store that remembers tab metadata and selected tab while keeping document contents out of the session file.
Oct 6, 2026 · 2 min read
Write local recovery copies without autosaving over user files
A complete Swift recovery-copy service that writes atomic text and metadata files into a user-selected folder and cleans them up after save or discard.
Oct 6, 2026 · 1 min read
Calculate editor line, column, and newline style safely
A complete Swift utility for UTF-16 editor offsets, Unicode-aware character counts, newline detection, and large-file warning policy.
Oct 6, 2026 · 1 min read
Open and save UTF-8 plain-text files safely
A complete Swift file service for .txt and .md documents with strict UTF-8 decoding, atomic saves, and a 10 MB warning.