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    Claudia Frank @Daniele Ricciardi
    last edited by May 15, 2017, 6:38 PM

    @Daniele-Ricciardi

    And what about the future? Any plan for a porting?

    from the official site, not that I’m aware of.
    I’m currently investigating whether it is possible for me
    to make a notepad++ clone for linux but I don’t promise anything.

    Cheers
    Claudia

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      Daniele Ricciardi @Claudia Frank
      last edited by May 29, 2017, 3:06 PM

      @Claudia-Frank said:

      @Daniele-Ricciardi

      And what about the future? Any plan for a porting?

      from the official site, not that I’m aware of.
      I’m currently investigating whether it is possible for me
      to make a notepad++ clone for linux but I don’t promise anything.

      Cheers
      Claudia

      If you need any help for Italian translation or small simple programming tasks (I’m not a professional programmer but a Systems Engineer with scripting basic knowledge and some basic programming background) I’m available

      thanks for everything you’d do

      Daniele

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        Claudia Frank @Daniele Ricciardi
        last edited by Claudia Frank May 29, 2017, 8:02 PM May 29, 2017, 8:00 PM

        @Daniele-Ricciardi

        Hi Daniele,

        thank you for the offer - my background is something similar, being more a tool developer (mainly python) than a GUI application programmer. I do have gathered some knowledge while using wxPython and to be honest, I assume I will create the complete UI
        in python first (because I already did 85%) and if I know what needs to be done I try to transfer it to c++ (let’s see how this works :-)

        And if I should build something which works, I would, of course, ask if you might give it a try.

        Cheers
        Claudia

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          Daniele Ricciardi @Claudia Frank
          last edited by May 30, 2017, 10:31 AM

          @Claudia-Frank said:

          @Daniele-Ricciardi

          Hi Daniele,

          thank you for the offer - my background is something similar, being more a tool developer (mainly python) than a GUI application programmer. I do have gathered some knowledge while using wxPython and to be honest, I assume I will create the complete UI
          in python first (because I already did 85%) and if I know what needs to be done I try to transfer it to c++ (let’s see how this works :-)

          And if I should build something which works, I would, of course, ask if you might give it a try.

          Cheers
          Claudia

          Count on me, whenever you need just contact me.

          thanks for your efforts

          Daniele

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            David Bailey
            last edited by May 30, 2017, 8:00 PM

            Wine works so well now that I think it could form the basis for a complete solution. The editor could be started from a bash script - thus avoiding the need to type the wine command.

            This would leave the problem that the wine file-open box is rather ugly, and doesn’t relate directly to the native Linux file system. I have wondered if the wine developers could be persuaded to add a few native functions such as a file-open/save box that would help to make programs running under wine look native to Linux.

            David

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              Claudia Frank @David Bailey
              last edited by May 30, 2017, 8:27 PM

              @David-Bailey

              on my two ubuntu based systems wine even created the shortcuts (launchers) on the desktop when installing npp which is nice.
              The one thing I really miss is the execution functionality, meaning I want to run
              gcc or python on linux directly like using Run or nppexec but without building a
              server/client like framework, where a python script plugin script takes the code,
              create a temporary file and forwards to a running linux python server instance
              which than executes the needed calls and reports back …, I haven’t found a suitable solution yet.

              And it looks like wine can’t satisfy this wish, that’s why I’m looking for the native build.
              But if you know a way how to achieve this, meaning writing code in npp
              and building/compiling/executing on linux from within npp - I would appreciate any hints.

              Cheers
              Claudia

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                gwarah
                last edited by Mar 6, 2018, 3:39 PM

                And another related question, some windows application (ex. foobar2000) are available as a snap app. Is there any project to do the same with npp?

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                  Claudia Frank @gwarah
                  last edited by Mar 13, 2018, 1:13 PM

                  @gwarah

                  sorry, not that I’m aware.

                  Cheers
                  Claudia

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                    pnedev
                    last edited by Mar 13, 2018, 1:23 PM

                    @gwarah ,

                    https://notepadqq.com

                    BR

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                      gwarah
                      last edited by Mar 13, 2018, 3:04 PM

                      @Claudia-Frank , I think it would be a good suggestion to npp developers pay some attention. I’ve tried npp in wine environment with success. I believe snap use some wine environment to allow runs some windows programs, so maybe would be easy to runs npp in such environments.

                      @pnedev, sure. I’m also think is the best option. But would be nice the column mode of npp in nqq

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                        pnedev
                        last edited by Mar 14, 2018, 8:14 AM

                        @gwarah ,
                        I personally prefer N++ under Wine.
                        BR

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                          gwarah
                          last edited by Mar 14, 2018, 2:21 PM

                          It’s exactly what I believe snap implements with windows app, but with the advantage with no need to install wine via apt-get.

                          If you have a Linux with snap installed and wine not installed, try to run this:

                          # sudo snap install foobar2000

                          and then run foobar2000:

                          # foobar2000

                          Snap install previously wine in a local user (and safer) environment.

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                            pnedev
                            last edited by Mar 14, 2018, 3:27 PM

                            I didn’t know that, thanks.
                            Will try it some time when I upgrade my Linux.

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                              gwarah
                              last edited by Apr 16, 2018, 10:11 AM

                              Good news!! npp is now availble on ubuntu snap store:

                              sudo snap install notepad-plus-plus
                              

                              \o/

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                                H B
                                last edited by Jul 20, 2019, 10:51 AM

                                I installed Notepad++ via Wine, and later found this post.
                                Tried installing it via snap, and it says ‘already installed’?

                                I also wondered,
                                If I wanted to use Notepad++ from Snap or Wine in Ubuntu (Lubuntu),
                                And wanted to do some C++ coding,
                                In Windows, there’s a procedure to install Plugins > NppExec , and create a script like below:

                                • npp_save
                                  cd $(CURRENT_DIRECTORY)
                                  C:\Program Files (x86)\Dev-Cpp\MinGW64\bin\g++.exe “$(FILE_NAME)”
                                  cmd /c “$(CURRENT_DIRECTORY)\a.exe”

                                What is the right procedure for Linux using G++?

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                                  Guus Ellenkamp
                                  last edited by Jul 15, 2020, 1:21 PM

                                  I did not see anything about why NPP is not native available on Linux. I am okay using it with Wine as I have been doing for a long time, but it would be nice to have a native version.

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                                    dail @Guus Ellenkamp
                                    last edited by Jul 15, 2020, 4:57 PM

                                    @Guus-Ellenkamp

                                    Notepad++ is developed using the Win32 api and is solely dependent on it. A native Linux version would require a nearly complete rewrite of the application…and you’d have to be crazy to want to do that.

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