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The built-in TextEdit (in plain text mode) is also a perfectly cromulent minimum viable text editor.

I wonder if anyone has taken the source of TextEdit [1] and added some minor niceties to just make it slightly more convenient for text editing (like adding line numbers).

[1] https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/samplecode/TextE...

Not a textedit fork, but I am building a minimal text editor with niceties based on scintilla. So performance wise on par with Notepad++ et al.

I find the free edition of BBEdit to be an excellent middle ground between TextEdit and a full-fat IDE.

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