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As someone who relies on Notepad++ daily, to the point of being seriously worried about finding a replacement when I am inevitably forced to switch to Linux[0],
by AnIdiotOnTheNet 5y ago
As someone who relies on Notepad++ daily, to the point of being seriously worried about finding a replacement when I am inevitably forced to switch to Linux[0], I am encouraged by my short time playing around with NotepadNext. It looks right, it feels mostly right, and the AppImage started quickly. Unfortunately it is still missing most of the features I actually use in Npp, but it is a promising start!
[0] Being real: I'll probably just run Npp in WINE
- petepete 5y agoWhich features of Npp are you struggling to find in other editors? I used Npp a bit a decade ago when I had to work with Windows but it didn't really have any stand out features (not a complaint, it worked perfectly for what I needed).
- AnIdiotOnTheNet 5y agoThe one that I've not yet seen in an alternative is a simple way to implement simple custom syntax highlighting. Npp has the UDL GUI, but I don't even need the GUI if specifying what to highlight and how to highlight it is as straightforward as the UDL XMLs are. Sadly most things have either hardcoded syntax highlighting or poorly documented convoluted specification files. Most of the other features I use most are fairly common though: line sorting and dedupe, column editing, regex search and replace, EoL conversion, compare/diff, etc.
- petepete 5y agoInteresting, the ease of editing syntax highlighting rules is something I hadn't considered. It feels like lots of editors are moving to Tree-sitter so things may improve in that regard.