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Need text editor advice (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) by xylogx@lemmy.world to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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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.

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[–] SrMono@feddit.org 17 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Sublime Text. On any platform. Nimble, mighty, extendable.

[–] turbowafflz@lemmy.world 4 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] SrMono@feddit.org 1 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

If three out of three platforms isn’t enough, you might want to go with vim. I guess it is ported to all platforms available.

Sublime is a text-editor on steroids. It has so many good extensions, it feels like an IDE.

Anyhow: paying for good software is a no-brainer, if it safes you troubles and time, and especially if yourself are a dev, too (depending on others to also pay for your work). Also there are fair company licenses in case a firm is involved.

And finally: you can use sublime without paying. There will he a pop up dialog every 50 start or so. It’s really not annoying and fair.

[–] turbowafflz@lemmy.world 2 points 5 hours ago

Ahh I guess if the target is being more IDE like then that kind of makes sense. I usually want barely anything but an editor with an LSP and auto formatter. I would be annoyed by the lack of BSD, Haiku, Illumos, etc support, but I guess if you don't use those it doesn't matter too much. Being closed source is still kind of a downer though for something like that, you would think they could adopt a scheme like some other paid software where you can pay for premade releases if you don't want to compile it yourself

[–] lefaucet@slrpnk.net 6 points 1 day ago

I'm a big fan of Sublime. It's powerful while also good at getting out of the way