Oh, OK. I get it now. Just a troll. So I withdraw my previous suggestion. Back under the bridge with you!

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Notepad isn't an editor.

Anyone who thinks notepad is an editor should get themselves an etch-a-sketch and be done with it.

How about mousepad?

Or if you want something with syntax highlighting and support for lots of languages, try kate.

Have you tried using notepad with wine? I don't know, but it might work.

Except on any other platform than the desktop. Seriously, if you want to use something with the limited functionality of Notepad go aahead and write it yourself. All the components you need are available for free in the common GUI toolkits and many tutorials actually are even dealing with writing simple text editors:
- http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-4.8/demos-textedit.html (even this text widget has actually more functionality than Notepad)
- http://python-gtk-3-tutorial.readthe.../textview.html

I don't know why anyone would want to use such limited software if better solutions are already available (text editors is not one of the software types that would be lacking on Linux), but of course that is up to you and as is shown in the tutorials such a limited editor is an easy to do project that doesn't need more than one developer.

WHY THE BLEEPED BLEEP WOULD I EVER WANT A "NOTEPAD" PIECE OF GARBAGE CLONE !!!!!

i disliked in in win95 i tried to UNINSTALL that "piece of $hi7 "from XP
installed Scite and Emacs on XP ( and win7 )

so WHY would i want a text editor from 1990's on a modern linux OS

but for a lightweight basic text editor use "nano "
most distros will have it installed by default ( or in there main repo)

When I worked in Windows I used Bred2/3 instead notepad, or akepad which was in time bundled with Total Commander. Under Linux i use Kate when would like more functionality but generally default application: gedit, kwrite leafpad. I don't think that this is a program class that demand so attention. You may install Wine and get notepad with it.

nano in linux, notepad++ in windows if i must.

Best solution is nothing in Windows.

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