I looked up notepad++. It says you can use it in Linux with Wine, or as a snap, but there are no native install packages.
Someone needs to compile the source and make a proper package. Any volunteers?
It looks like someone has done it
Both SciTE and notepad++, and also Geany, are based on Scintilla, which is a library that provides text editing functions.
I still remember a time when the only text editor Microsoft offered, was āedlinā - if you think āviā is obtuse - edlin was whole other level of non-usability! I guess they wanted to make it too hard for DOS users to mess up their autoexec.bat or config.sysā¦
Heck - even back then - most ādevelopersā used a TUI based IDE - e.g. for assembler or C or others (e.g. pascal).
I remember when a GUI came out for DOS files that included an editor called ??? (donāt remember the name now), but it looked a lot like Midnight Commander does today.
Wow, just popped into my head. Norton Commander.
Try TECO on PDP11
Designed so that one false keystroke could destroy your document.
I have only very vague memories of edlin, but I know it was awful.
Correct. I used such āworkbenchesā for MS-C and Turbo-Pascal, I think, as well.
Besides this, I remember my two editors in use:
(If (you (can) make (sense (of this...))))
I wish they had modernized the UI a little bit.
There is a line editor in Linux called ed.
In the early days of BSD, if you dropped into single user mode, the only editor available was ed.
Using a line editor is like flying blindā¦ you can not see the file you are editingā¦ you can display one line at a time. You have to sort of keep an image of the file in your head.
I use Notepad++ on remote Windows servers Iām forced to use as jumphosts to SSH to UNIX systems - how bizarre?
RDP? One of the leakiest most vulnerable protocols out thereā¦ I like the responsiveness (it was orginally developed by Citrix) - but its so insecureā¦ WTF?
So you make me use an extremely insecure protocol to use a very well locked down encrypted protocol like SSH?
Anyway - I HATE using Notepad++ - Iām 63 and trying to find any accessibilty settings in it so hard to find - I usually just give upā¦
Accessibility in a terminal? Piece of cake - even if itās just MobaXterm - hold down CTRL and scroll the mouse wheelā¦ Why should it be so hard?
I seriously pity people with low vision (mineās pretty low - and Iām colour blind) issuesā¦
āDARK MODE EVERYWHEREā is my favourite thing on most systems Iām forced (nobody forced me to use Itās Foss!) to useā¦ Windows 11 seems to be mostly embracing it (I only use Windows 11 as VDI or through Microsoft Azure AVD)ā¦ vast areas of white pixels actually gives me headaches - I run Itās Foss in Dark Mode :
NotepadQQ would be the Linux-native alternative to it.
Iām not sure it is still mainained, but I liked it, just like Notepad++ when I still was on Windows.
I also had the āpleasureā of using a line editor. But I donāt remember on which of the platforms I met during my career it was. It might be DOS, RSX-11, VAX/VMS or AOS/VS. Anyway, Iām sure it was not Linux.
Me too.
On my new tablet there is an additional setting that turns the black background into a hazy brown ā¦ something to do with night use. It suits meā¦ easy on eyes.
It is called āeye comfort shieldā under Display
