You won’t find a 100% replacement because npp has a bunch of very specific plugins, but often those plugins would be unnecessary on Linux because you already have other utilities that perform those jobs. You don’t need a plugin to ssh into a server to edit files when you’ve got sshfs for example.
What are good Notepad++ alternatives that run natively on Linux?
I’d say Kate
Kate is great. I even use it on Windows instead of n++
You won’t find a 100% replacement because npp has a bunch of very specific plugins, but often those plugins would be unnecessary on Linux because you already have other utilities that perform those jobs. You don’t need a plugin to ssh into a server to edit files when you’ve got sshfs for example.
Anyway you can use Geany on Gnome or Kate on KDE.
Kate is grate
While regular Notepad is badd.
Depends on what you want to do. I’m a dirty vim user and use nvim in the terminal. There are a lot of text editors though.
There are better text editors. Swearing by that one is kind of a joke.
A must-be joke: vim
And seriously, Sublime
I use Zed Editor on a daily basis even though they push AI in it (it’s purely opt-in, thankfully)
For alternative software, I usually ask AlternativeTo : https://alternativeto.net/software/notepad-plus-plus/?platform=linux&license=opensource
Edit: Some people seem to disagree and I’d like to know if it’s related to Zed, AI in Zed or AlternativeTo, thanks in advance!
If its the ui you are looking for there is notepadqq
Geany
VSCodium
Or just run the exe under wine. It’s foss so i’m not sure why it’s never been ported.
Notepad++'s performance is one of the main reasons I run it under Wine despite the filesystem annoyances. VSCodium is not not nearly as responsive.