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Cool! Notepad++ was one of the apps that I missed the most when I switched to Linux. Besides games, it was the number one reason that I kept rebooting into anot
by aftbit 3y ago
Cool! Notepad++ was one of the apps that I missed the most when I switched to Linux. Besides games, it was the number one reason that I kept rebooting into another OS. After a while, I learned emacs, then vim, and the rest is history. Today, I would probably have switched to Codium. As long as we agree not to use Sublime Text anymore.
- fsloth 3y agoI transitioned recently to Mac on new job and I was surprised to find the most painful thing was not havig Notepad++ and was super amazed I did not find comparable software on Mac.
- clnhlzmn 3y agoTextAdept is a cross platform, minimal, fast, and extensible text editor that might be a good candidate.
- fsloth 3y agoThanks! I’ll check it out.
- eyegor 3y agoSublime is a massive improvement in my opinion, and cross platform. It's not free** but you can use a personal license at work and on multiple machines. It's one of the few text editors with a plug-in system that can reliably open 100mb+ files and auto reload on file updates (without crashing constantly). https://www.sublimetext.com/ https://www.sublimetext.com/ ** it's sort of free, the trial period is unlimited. It just gives "activate me" popups every dozen file saves or something.
- fsloth 3y agoThanks! I’ll check it out.
- remotefonts 3y agohttps://www.geany.org/download/releases/ https://www.geany.org/download/releases/ has a Mac installer. It's what I used to replace notepad++ when I moved from windows to Linux.
- paulnpace 3y agoNotepad++ works well for me in wine.
- notRobot 3y agoI couldn't get it to work perfectly, it had text and UI rendering bugs that made it unusable. Geany works well as an alternative for me on GNU/Linux.
- paulnpace 3y agoI've used it on Ubuntu and derivatives. My only observation is there are many different packages for wine, and selecting the best one for the distribution seems to make a difference. Installing directly never worked for me.
- Aachen 3y ago> then vim, and the rest is history. Heh, I'm glad you found the light in the end =) I remember that I first tried out Vim during an internship with a boss that was less than receptive to me trying out things I heard about online, like the way he pronounced "wtf is dug..dug..go?" when I did a search query, or the weird look gvim got... I guess I was a bit more prepared for the Linux life by having seen Vim before, but still it was surprising nobody built NP++ for Linux and that there was nothing better than Geany available in terms of NP++-likenesses. It seemed so simple, how can it not exist? Apparently the simplicity is deceptive
- mixmastamyk 3y agoGeany is almost twenty years old.