It’s a powerful text editor (for developers) as compared to Windows default text editor program called Notepad.Notepad++ is popular among Windows community because of: Read on below to discover more about the two text editors and of course we’ll further discuss the capabilities of Notepadqq program.Īlso, read – Best Code Editors For Linux Why is Notepad++ popular? Well, the choice is up to you and both of them have their own pros and cons. That might leave you wondering which of the two is best. So what makes them different? The answer is one of them is actually a Windows binary that runs on top of WINE (Notepad++) and the other is a native Linux program implemented using Qt technology (Notepadqq). Notepadqq is available as a snap app on Ubuntu platform currently, and so is Notepad++. It is an alternative to Notepad++, a very popular Windows text editor among the programmer’s community. So as much as I like NP++, it has aged itself out of my current tool set.Notepadqq is a programmer’s text editor program for Linux. But in my opinion the choice now is to simply use VSCode, which has similar properties to NP++ but with a much richer and actively maintained plugin / extension system. ** EDIT (March 2019): The first comment on this question helped a bit IIRC but fresh installs seem to behave much better, which makes me think that I had managed over time to confuse the app. So does anyone know how to make it stop treating unsaved data so poorly? It is the one feature that makes me want to just use vscode for everything, despite its lack of the ability to act as a persistent cache for random unsaved data. I've been searching for a solution off and on for days, and it is driving me nuts. when I create my unsaved tabs (new39, new40, etc.) they get an obnoxious background color that is unpleasant to look at and partially obscures text based on the lighter foreground font I am using. I also like the style configurator, and particularly the solarized-light theme, which is easy on the eyes.īUT.

I have used it this way for a long time as I do a lot of experimental stuff when working with Hyperledger blockchain code and data.

Notepad++ has a uniquely useful feature - you can open a new tab and paste some text in and it will remember that text forever without saving it to any formal location.

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