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Damn, notepad++... I remember feeling so sad that there wasn't a Linux version back when I ditched Windows.
Baffles me that this did not get a wildly successful native Linux version in all those years, but it's probably too late now with VSCode and all the NeoVim fans.
Geany might be your thing.
Or Kate, which funny enough now runs on windows
Many KDE apps run on Windows. Okular is the best PDF viewer for the entire platform.
You used to be able to use KDE in windows back in the day even. Lost my shit first time I saw that on a colleague's laptop.
The virtue of QT based toolkits, which thankfully they haven’t tried to shaft KDE on, as long as the project is open source
Thanks for the recommendation. I did have a short stint with Geany back then, but this was nearly two decades ago now, I have since moved on.
For Linux there's Notepadqq
https://notepadqq.com/s/
~~Is there? Releases span between 2017 and 2019, the last of which is a beta, and it is largely unmaintained, with most of the contributions after that being "readme updates" and the odd typo/mistranslation.~~
~~Wouldn't call that a wildly successful Linux version of notepad++.~~
EDIT: reading this again, I don't know why I sound so needlessly angry, it wasn't my intention.
I meant to say this does not sounds like a viable alternative from a glance. But if you used it and it's good I am happy to be proven wrong.
From the Notepad++ home page:
Trying to port it to other platforms is thus nonsensical. It would have to be a ground-up rewrite without the Windows API dependency. And there are indeed various other projects for Linux and other platforms that pretty much replicate its functionality, but they're by definition not going to be Notepad++.
Yes. NeoVim has no business being as good as a drop-in replacement for Notepad, as it is (for people who want that, anyway.)
Even VSCode isn't half bad at a quick load, now - as long as it isn't loading too many plugins.
NotePad++ is still pretty great, by any measure, though. (Edit: But not good enough to load Windows for, to me.)