Nextpad++ v1.1.0 — the native macOS port of Notepad++. Universal (Apple Silicon + Intel), notarized, macOS 12 (Monterey) or later.
Two things define 1.1.0: Nextpad++ settles into your Mac — file associations, update notifications, side panels that dock on either side and remember themselves — and the AI plugins arrive: Parakeet, MCP Server, and LuaScript join the catalog (now 60 plugins).
New features
- File associations — make Nextpad++ the default app for your file types (Preferences → File Associations); choices survive app updates
- Update notifications — a quiet daily check with an in-app card when a new version is out
- Side panels, all grown up — dock any panel left or right, per-panel widths, floating panels and plugin panels restore across restarts
- Printing — ⌘P prints the whole document, paginated, with working Scale
- Tab bar refinements — richer tab colors, mouse-wheel scrolling, cleaner overflow arrows
- Document List — configurable columns (right-click the header), live refresh on tab reorder
- Full Character-sets menu — the complete Windows-parity encoding tree
- CJK-friendly word wrap — optional natural wrapping for Chinese/Japanese/Korean text (Preferences → Editor)
Search & editing
- Found matches land in the middle of the window (not hidden behind the scrollbar) and unfold collapsed regions
- Replace in Files / Projects: honest counts, regex/case/whole-word respected, write failures reported, no-op writes skipped
- Search results resolve unsaved tabs instead of opening phantom files
- Word completion fixed for documents with accented/CJK text
Your work is safer
- Monitoring (tail -f) tabs no longer silently discard unsaved edits
- Same-named files no longer share one auto-backup; stale backups are quarantined, not deleted
- Multi-window quit keeps secondary windows' tabs and backups
- "File changed on disk" waits until you're back in the app and on that tab
Stability
- No more multi-second freezes navigating large wrapped files
- Multi-Select and comment commands fixed for non-ASCII documents
- Red-✗ dialog close no longer freezes the app; Tahoe title-bar double-click zoom restored
- Git panel: staging failures reported, Stage All deadlock fixed
- Refreshed app icon (Liquid Glass + classic)
Plugins & API
- Catalog grows 55 → 60: Parakeet AI (on-device voice transcription, meeting capture, summaries, translation), MCP Server (connect Claude/Cursor/any MCP assistant to your open tabs), LuaScript (script the editor), CSV Lint, SmartHighlight
- Plugin API parity batch: buffer activation/file ops/per-buffer language, open/close notifications, panel-restore declarations, inter-plugin messaging
Full release notes: https://nextpad.org/news/?slug=npp_v1.1.0_updates