Clone of the Windows Notepad made for Linux (ultra light-weight)
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View Poll Results: Do you like the Microsoft Notepad?
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As somebody who uses notepad day to day I'd say it's about the least-useful text editor out there. Most of the Windows admins I've known who made heavy use of a notepad application have changed to Notepad++ or Notepad2 or similar and found their productivity improved.
If you want the functionality of Notepad then Gedit or Mousepad will do it for you. If you just want the look then you'll need to change the setting for whichever desktop environment you use and install some more MS looking fonts (I always set notepad to monospace anyhow as it aids in scripting and in comparing files).
Or, you could just run notepad under WINE?
I used notepad in 1990 because it was the best webpage editor at the time :P
I instantly stopped using it when we discovered, after some strange and annoying problems, that notepad decided to ninjachange the encoding on them when some user had added another line to the file. (something about size becoming greater than ..i dunno .. something like 1024 bytes).
I used notepad in 1990 because it was the best webpage editor at the time :P
I instantly stopped using it when we discovered, after some strange and annoying problems, that notepad decided to ninjachange the encoding on them when some user had added another line to the file. (something about size becoming greater than ..i dunno .. something like 1024 bytes).
MS notepad was forever banned from my good book.
Btw if you need good HTML editor you could use emacs advanced but better, and you could try Bluefish Editor for PHP,HTML and some other things, its easy to use.
jedit? or geany?
i'm pressed hard to think of anything without ANY syntax highlighting. wasn't there mousepad also?
what's the point? nostalgia? certainly not usability.
I am looking for a light-weight notepad (not such as leafpad), but a really clone, very close, to the regular MS Windows Notepad.s
Couldn't you just use vi, hit "a" to go into "append mode", and then leave it there for the duration of the editing session? i.e., never hit <ESC> to leave append mode? That would be pretty close to the feature set that Notepad provides.
Also, don't you get Notepad by default when you install Wine? On my LinuxMint Xfce desktop, I look at Menu->Wine->Programs->Accessories and there is Notepad, by default. I certainly didn't install it.
Couldn't you just use vi, hit "a" to go into "append mode", and then leave it there for the duration of the editing session? i.e., never hit <ESC> to leave append mode? That would be pretty close to the feature set that Notepad provides.
Also, don't you get Notepad by default when you install Wine? On my LinuxMint Xfce desktop, I look at Menu->Wine->Programs->Accessories and there is Notepad, by default. I certainly didn't install it.
vi or vim is not very good looking compared to notepad.
Linux is not largely used in the world. geany either You live in a complete dream, guys. Linux almost do not exist. ha ha
It depends which market you look at. Supercomputer market: Linux rules, Server market: Linux rules, Embedded system market: Linux rules, Mobile market: Linux rules. Desktop market: Linux sucks (=is not very popular)
I wouldn't call it 'non existence'.
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Notepad is far the most used editor in the world, today.
So what? Just because it's popular, do I have to use it? That's ridiculous. Notepad is a very simplistic text editor that can't do much. Why on earth would I want to use it when I can use vim that is lighter and provides so much functionality out of the box? That question really puzzles me.
Just because Britney Spears (or whoever tops the pop lists now) have sold many more albums than some artists that actually have real talent, do I need to conclude that she is better than them and I need to buy her album?
Even if there are pieces of software that I'd like to bring to Linux from the Windows world, Notepad wouldn't be one of them. In terms of gaming, Linux might be behind Windows, but in terms of lightweight text editors, there is enough choice that one does not need to look back on Windows.
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As I mentioned, the majority of the Windows admins I've known (i.e. people who use Windows for a living) choose to swap notepad for something else because its functionality sucks.
Don't get me wrong, I use it day to day for taking notes, as I'm not allowed to install anything on my machine, and it works but it's hardly anybody's first choice.
Linux is not largely used in the world. geany either You live in a complete dream, guys. Notepad is far the most used editor in the world, today.
Oh, I'm definitely glad to run this dream OS. If you like notepad so much I warmly suggest you to stick with MS products (you know, that widely used OS): no one is going to stop you, really.
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