Moped Text Editor

macOS / developpeurs

If you come from the Windows world, you may be missing a small utility: Notepad, a simple but essential tool for editing plain text files. While macOS counts on its own built-in text editor: TextEdit, it is actually more like a Rich Text Editor with full images, fonts and layout support. Similar to the built-in Windows Write or WordPad.

It kind of feels heavier than it should and in the way. There are known settings to make it look and feel lighter, but inside it's still the same. You can get the source and peek inside. It's bigger and with older code than it needs to be.

Moped intends to give a Windows Notepad feel, while being a full native of macOS, with a touch of modern syntax highlight and themes.

Tip: If you have any issues or questions, please use the Support URL in order to get the best help, posting a review with a question doesn't really give much choices (or space) to assist you.

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Moped v2.0.0 Release Notes
This is a major update, changes have been broken down as follows:

New Features
- Alternate App Icons — Choose from multiple icon themes (Beige, Black, Default, Pink, Rainbow, Red) in Preferences
- Jump to Line — Jump directly to any line number via command
- Indent / Outdent Shortcuts — Keyboard shortcuts for indenting/outdenting selections; auto-detects indent style
- Optional Line Numbers — Toggle the line number ruler on/off in Preferences
- CLI Tool (moped) — New Swift CLI companion for opening files from Terminal, with proper sandboxing and GUI sync
- Localization — Full English and Spanish translations via Xcode String Catalogs; CI enforces localized strings

UI / UX Improvements
- Preferences window migrated from Storyboard to SwiftUI
- Cursor now starts at line 1 (not EOF) when opening a file
- Fixed Find panel appearance in light and dark mode
- Fixed Find panel focus handling
- Removed border artifacts in the editor
- Menu items now use Unicode ellipsis (…) instead of three periods (...)

Performance
- Syntax highlighting automatically disabled on medium/large files to prevent freezing
- Debounce optimization for large text edits
- Line number ruler optimizations on startup and during editing
- Theme and syntax highlight caching
- Line count uses optimized UTF-16 scanning with caching

Bug Fixes
- Fixed freezing text area on text selection
- Fixed print background rendering issue
- Fixed syntax highlight corruption after copy/paste
- Fixed print failure alert to use localized message
- Fixed CLI sandboxing issue when launching Moped from Terminal
- Fixed shell injection vulnerability in CLI error message
- Fixed deprecated API usage
- Fixed UTType handling
- Added file size validation in document model

Infrastructure
- App Sandbox entitlement enabled and tested
- MopedCLI target added with its own signing and executable attributes