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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 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.

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I 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.

TextAdept is a cross platform, minimal, fast, and extensible text editor that might be a good candidate.

Thanks! I’ll check it out.

Sublime 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/

** it's sort of free, the trial period is unlimited. It just gives "activate me" popups every dozen file saves or something.

Thanks! I’ll check it out.

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.

> 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

Geany is almost twenty years old.

Notepad++ works well for me in wine.

I 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.

I'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.

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