Authors of Nextpad++ for Mac and Linux

Andrew Letov

Developer of Nextpad++ for Mac and Linux

Andrew Letov is a New York product manager and software engineer. Most of his career has been in fintech: building risk management platforms at Moody's, Axiom and technology and operational risk and analytics platforms at Bank of New York. Earlier he built UX at the American Stock Exchange, developed treasury and securities systems at JPMorgan, helped with DNA sequencing pipelines at Mount Sinai, and taught Java at Polytechnic University.

Andrew started the Nextpad++ project in March 2026 to close a twenty-year gap: Mac users who loved Notepad++ on Windows had never had a native equivalent — and neither did Linux users. The macOS port is written in Objective-C++ on top of Scintilla and Cocoa and the Linux port in C on GTK4 (the "right way" instead of a Wine wrapper), and multi-agent AI development workflows are what make a one-person project at this scale practical. He also maintains the macOS and Linux plugin ecosystem and the plugin registry that powers Plugin Admin inside the app.

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Plugin Upstream Authors

The macOS plugin catalog now ships twenty-three plugins, each built on upstream source by other authors. The Mac versions are compiled as native dylibs against the NppPluginInterfaceMac.h header, but the algorithms, features, and — in most cases — the bulk of the code come from these people. Credit and thanks to:

Pavel Nedev — ComparePlus
Mike Tzou (Chocobo1) — Auto Detect Indention
Justin Dailey — DoxyIt
Justin Dailey, Marius Vasiliu — Elastic Tabstops
Christian Grasser — NppExport
Christian Grasser — XML Navigator
Helder Sepulveda — NppFavorites
Ben Bluemel, Frank Fesevur — Indent By Fold
Frank Fesevur — SelectQuotedText
Jakub Dvorak — Selection to Clipboard
Rajendra Singh — URL Encode/Decode
Leonard Chai — Folding Line Hider
Query Kuma — Reverse Lines
jejemorg — Open Host file
Don HO — Pork to Sausage
Zukaritasu — Discord Rich Presence
Joao Moreno, TonyM, MVincent — QuickText
Jens Wollgarten — Markdown Panel
NPP-JSONViewer team — JSON Viewer
Richard Stockinger — NppLLM
PingKuei Lin — NppAIAssistant
Jens Lorenz — HEX-Editor (macOS port by Dave Hadner)
Andrew Letov — Beads

Each plugin is free and open source under GPL v3. Browse the full catalog on the plugins page, or install them inside Nextpad++ on Mac or Linux via Plugins → Plugins Admin.

Contact

For support requests and bug reports, please use the macOS issue tracker or the Linux issue tracker on GitHub. For bugs on this website specifically, use the website repository issue tracker.

For questions about the original Notepad++ (Windows), please visit the Notepad++ Community Forum. For everything macOS-specific — bug reports, feature requests, plugin port requests, or contributor questions — the nextpad-plus-plus GitHub organisation is the right place to start. Contributions are welcome: fork, port, or fix, then open a pull request. See the about page for project background and the plugins page for how to contribute a new plugin port.