Just like migrating from Reddit to Lemmy it’s the same as migrating from Windows to Linux, there’s shortcomings and learning curve and the more I use Lemmy the more I hate about Windows, because unlike reddit Lemmy is open source and open source softwares communities is more popular than proprietary communities and people like to shit on them (and I loved it). (Sorry for horrible English)
I installed Linux mint in dual boot configuration, which had some problems getting working (aka not easy). I haven’t used it much mostly because notepad++ isn’t available outside of emulation and ubuntu’s repo. I tried like all the Linux notepads’ and didn’t like them because they lacked notepad++ functionalities I wanted. I really want to drop windows, but cannot right now.
If all you need is np++ you can run it through Lutris which is faster than windows in some cases
Haven’t heard of Lutris, and the website says it’s an open source gaming platform. I’m kinda confused about what it does. It’s a client to host all your gaming accounts? How’s that related to NP++? Sorry if I sound too obtuse, it can take a bit on the uptake for me.
It’s just a gui frontend of wine with some enchantment to run not just windows games but also windows softwares on Linux, it’s pretty easy to install and setup also you don’t need an account to use it
I’ll try this next, thanks for the info.
It’s worth noting that, if you already have steam installed, you can have it do the same thing without needing to install Lutris. Lutris will probably still be simpler to set up, but just in case you already have steam and really don’t want to install yet another program just to get notepad++ running properly:
You’ll need to enable “force compatibility layer for all games” in the Steam settings (or something along those lines), then add notepad++.exe to Steam via the “Add non-Steam game to library” functionality.
What features from Notepad++ are you wanting in an editor?
-Folder search/replace functions, which searches all text in all file types in a folder I choose.
-User created language rules and formatting (An example use case is a personal path of exile’s loot filter)
-Dark mode or ability to customize UI colors
-Exporting/importing application settings and languages
Notepad++ can do these without too much of a learning curve, which is nice, because I’m not looking for a full IDE to learn. Also the last two points are not as important, but really nice to have.
I’m willing to learn a new software package as long as it doesn’t have a big learning curve (basically as easy as notepad++), suggestions would be welcomed and maybe a nudge in the right direction to where these features are.
I don’t know if you’ve tried Kate, but it does most of this. It can act as an IDE, but it’s first and foremost a text editor, which is similar to Notepad++ (iirc, it’s been a while). The toughest requirement to meet would be
https://docs.kde.org/stable5/en/kate/katepart/highlight.html is the documentation for how you’d do that, and https://invent.kde.org/frameworks/syntax-highlighting/-/tree/master/data/syntax has all of the built-in syntax highlighters.
It also runs on Windows, so you can give it a spin and see what you think. It’s unfortunate that NP++ is tied so directly to Windows APIs, but I wonder how hard it would be to use winelib to make a decent Linux version.
I tried Kate on Linux, and didn’t see that. I’ll look into it again. Thanks for the tip.
I have no clue what it would take to make a Linux version, way over my head haha
Language highlighting is mostly why I use np++.
Well Kate is very useful for that.
can use NotepadNext. Its a cross platform of notepad++
Did notepadqq not work out? It’s a great look-alike of notepad++ but i admit i haven’t used it that much.
Tired it and it didn’t have the features I wanted. Last I looked, the description said they are in the process of implementing them.