I am a big fan of Notepad++ in windows and I have been using Notepadqq, a linux clone. Lately though, I have been experiencing more and more crashes and bugs with it. Looking for advice and wisdom. Is there something better? Should I stick it out and try and troubleshoot my problems with Notepadqq?

Edit: Just wanted to thank everyone for all the great advice! I know people can sometimes be territorial and/or religious about their choices here, but people in this thread were helpful and informative, so thank you!

I am trying out Notepad Next but I also installed Notepad++ with Wine. Both seem promising, thanks.

  • A_norny_mousse@feddit.org
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    3 months ago

    Try Geany if you don’t want a heavyweight; it’s in the repos. IMHO pretty similar to notepadqq.

    BTW, I also have trouble with Qt apps crashing/freezing on Debian Stable. What distro/version are you on?

    • brax@sh.itjust.works
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      3 months ago

      Fuck you.

      Love,
      Neovim

      (Just meming, emacs is actually pretty cool tbh and you probably are too.)

    • callcc@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      With emacs you don’t learn once, nor twice but at least 100 times. but seriously, it’s a very nice editor that you either fall for life or not at all.

      • conrad82@lemmy.world
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        3 months ago

        I used it for a couple of years then stopped 🫣 org mode was nice. except for on mobile. except if you wanted images. and discovering the right packages was a bit of a chore

        it was fun while it lasted tho

  • HouseWolf@pawb.social
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    3 months ago

    I also used Notepadqq for the first year I used Linux, I ended up switching to Kate since it did everything I liked about Notepad++ and it came installed with my KDE desktop soooo.

    Also for the few times I gotta use a terminal text editor I use Micro (It really should be the default instead of Nano)

  • Starkon@lemmy.ml
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    3 months ago

    Neovim is the way and here’s imo why:

    • Vim keybinds: yes, we take more time editing then actually writing text/code so it’s faster to use a modal text editor, you just have to learn it a bit at the start. Vim language is easy, you just tell it what you want it to do (ie. diw: delete inner word, ciw: change inner word etc.)
    • highly customisable, even if you don’t want to cherry pick your plugins and choose a config, there are many out of the box configured (lazyvvim comes to mind but there are many)
    • if you’re a developer you can find plugins for everything you need, debugger, lsp, autocompletion etc.
    • TurboWafflz@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      Paying for a text editor seems weird, especially one that’s closed source and only supports 3 platforms