Notepad++ on Linux?

gwarah · 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?

Claudia Frank · Mar 13, 2018, 1:13 PM

@gwarah

sorry, not that I’m aware.

Cheers
Claudia

pnedev · Mar 13, 2018, 1:23 PM

@gwarah ,

https://notepadqq.com

BR

gwarah · 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

pnedev · Mar 14, 2018, 8:14 AM

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

gwarah · 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.

pnedev · Mar 14, 2018, 3:27 PM

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

gwarah · Apr 16, 2018, 10:11 AM

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

sudo snap install notepad-plus-plus

\o/

H B · 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++?

Guus Ellenkamp · 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.

dail · 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.