Moped Text Editor

Moped is a small, light, native plain-text editor for macOS. It opens fast, stays out of the way, and never tries to be a word processor: no rich text, no embedded fonts, no layout — just the characters you typed, saved exactly as you typed them. If you have been looking for something simpler than TextEdit for a quick note, or something lighter than a full IDE for that one config file, Moped is built for both. EVERYDAY PLAIN TEXT • Opens instantly and behaves like a proper macOS document app — New, Open Recent, Duplicate, Revert, and window tabbing all work the way you expect • Paste is always plain text, and smart quotes, smart dashes, and autocorrect stay out of your file • Automatic text-encoding detection, with files written back in the encoding they arrived in • Line endings are preserved: a Windows file stays CRLF and a classic Mac file stays CR, including the lines you add. The status bar shows which convention a document uses, and lets you change it • Declines binary files rather than mangling them, and asks before reloading a file another app has changed • Printing, six app icons to choose from, and session restore that reopens your documents where you left them FOR CODE AND CONFIG • Syntax highlighting for two dozen languages, offered under 35 names in the picker: Swift, Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, JSX, TSX, Go, Rust, Java, C, C++, C#, PHP, Ruby, SQL, HTML, XML, CSS, JSON, YAML, TOML, Markdown, shell scripts, and unified diffs • Line-number gutter with current-line emphasis, optional word wrap, and indentation that matches whatever the document already uses • Comment or uncomment a selection with ⌘/, using the document language's own marker • Find and Find & Replace with full regular expression support, plus Jump to Line • A status bar showing document type and cursor position, with a language picker to override detection on the spot • Files up to 16 MB, with highlighting stepping aside past 256 KB so typing stays instant THEMES Eight themes are included: Xcode-like, Default, Solarized, Ocean, Forest, Nebula, the yellow-on-blue Turbo, and a System theme that borrows macOS's own colors. All but Turbo carry both a light and a dark palette and switch as your Mac does, live. Beyond those, a theme is simply a small JSON file — open the themes folder from Settings, double-click one to edit it in Moped itself, and your own themes join the picker. Any installed font works, at any size, with an option to list only the monospaced ones. COMMAND LINE Moped ships a moped command for opening files from Terminal, set up from the app menu. With moped --wait it serves nicely as your Git commit editor. MADE FOR MACOS Moped is written in Swift with SwiftUI and AppKit, runs natively on Apple silicon and Intel, and is fully sandboxed with no network access of any kind. Your files never leave your Mac. Moped speaks German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, and Ukrainian. Free and open source under the GNU General Public License v3. Requires macOS 14 or later.