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by ab_io 600 days ago
As a Mac user, Notepad++ is the only thing I miss from the Windows ecosystem.
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What do you happen to use? I find Sublime Text to be the closest alternative.
At the time (and it was a few years ago), I found BBEdit to be rather amazing - or at least equally a product raised with care in its ecosystem over decades of use.
It runs on Wine.
It runs with difficulty on Wine. Example: I have localization for Japanese fonts on my Linux system but it wasn't showing up in Notepad++. I love Notepad++, but that was the final straw. I have switched to Geany which is missing many features from Notepad++, but will display the fonts correctly. I'm sure there's a way to get the fonts loaded up through Wine, but I've given up.
Geany is great, but you can take a look at Kate as well if it doesn't meet all your needs.
Thank you, I will check it out.
It runs great on Wine, I use it all the time for quick notes and todo lists.
It runs but has always felt lumpy to me.