[rembicilious]

Npp (Notepad++) is my go to text editor for windows. It has been actively maintained for 20 years. It’s lightweight with a super responsive UI. I love the text search/replace interface. I keep a copy of the portable version on my keychain thumb drive because I never know when a friend or family member will have me muck around with their pc. Npp Version 7 runs splendidly on wine. I prefer it over the linux desktop text editors like Kate (which is a great editor in its own right).

I don’t think NotepadNext appimage or flatpak will be able to match Npp in regards to memory footprint and ui responsiveness.

But, I am excited to use it and it may find it’s way onto my thumbdrive because it runs natively on Linux so it doesn’t depend on wine.

[butz]

I was not expecting much, but AppImage startup time and responsiveness looks promising. Memory usage in GNOME System Monitor looks decent (AppRun.wrapped - 13.9MB, NotepadNext - 876.5 kB). Typing feels much faster than Linux version of VSCode, maybe even reaching levels of SublimeText? Need to test with much bigger documents with complicated syntax highlighting to make sure. Overall, the major Notepad++ selling point - autosave on exit - is not implemented here, so until then I'll be going back to Geany, but will keep my eye on this. And forgot to mention that it decently integrates into GNOME desktop as well, no issues with decorations and missing app in Alt+Tab list.

[butz]

Did a bit more testing. Autosave feature exists, but it is turned off by default. Another good thing is that NotepadNext is rendering Japanese characters correctly, as compared to Geany, which renders Chinese instead. One strange thing, is that Linux version is using Qt5 instead of more recent Qt6.

[jtriangle]

Notepadqq on linux is basically 1:1 with notepad++

[gverrilla]

I'm not a specialist, but having used both I can say Nqq presents a lot of bugs Npp doesn't.

[StuffMaster]

I also love Notepad2. Both are awesome.

[g8oz]

I thought the project was dead

[FreeWorld]

I believe it's been replaced by notepad3.