They are talking about using a library called Yuni to make it cross-platform. The app is simple to use and has a plethora of features. It is compatible with both Ubuntu and Linux. Notepad is a powerful text editor that comes standard with a plethora of features. It looks like there is moderate interest on the Notepad++ community forums but the Notepad++ developers say there is not immediate date for the port (however they do want to make it cross-platform) ( here's the thread ). Based on the powerful editing component Scintilla, Notepad++ is written in C++ and uses pure Win32 API and STL which ensures a higher execution speed and. Notepad++, as opposed to Notepad, is the best alternative to Notepad on Ubuntu Linux. It looks like Scintilla already builds natively on Linux (I pulled down the source and built it myself with no issues using GTK). The latter poses a problem on Linux for obvious reasons. I've been looking through it and it looks like it's based on using Scintilla and the Win32 API. The source code for Notepad++ is open source and on GitHub here. I have a decent amount of C/C++ programming experience mostly in the realms of CRUD-based apps and some graphics programming but I've never worked on a text editor before. Hey! I have recently shifted over to Linux OS's (Ubuntu, Linux Mint) over the past year and one thing I really have missed is Notepad++.

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