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    • MrAlwaysAwesome
      MrAlwaysAwesome last edited by

      Please release a version of notepad ++ on linux machines. Iam working on linux at home and use notepad ++ at work on windows machines. Now I can’t use it on linux without wine…

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      • PeterJones
        PeterJones @MrAlwaysAwesome last edited by

        @mralwaysawesome ,

        That would require re-writing the application from scratch, because native linux uses a completely different set of UI libraries and a completely different set of methods of interacting between processes. Notepad++ is, at its core, a Windows (win32 api) application, and as such, cannot easily translate to other environments.

        (There are applications out there that don’t require a complete re-write to be portable across platforms, but they require lots of planning, and a different design philosophy from the outset.)

        It would be possible to write an application inspired by Notepad++ using linux-style coding, but by its very nature, it wouldn’t be Notepad++.

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        • dail
          dail @PeterJones last edited by

          @peterjones said in Support for Linux!:

          That would require re-writing the application from scratch

          Indeed.

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