non Gnome Notepad++ Replacement

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FastTurtle · Post by **FastTurtle** » Wed Apr 10, 2024 10:05 pm

As I'm a heavy user of Notepad++, I'm looking for a Gentoo Replacement that doesn't pull in a whole bunch of Gnome or KDE to run.

System will use Fluxbox as the WM, so I prefer as light weight as possible. One thing I no longer find in the package database is QTeditor. Very similar to Notetab++ but it was QT3 If I recall correctly as it's been over decade since I've run Gentoo.

flexibeast · Post by **flexibeast** » Thu Apr 11, 2024 1:40 am

Looking through the app-editors category, two that might meet your requirements are:

* app-editors/sublime-text, which is only available in testing, and requires accepting the Sublime license.

* app-editors/nedit, which is Motif-based.

figueroa · Post by **figueroa** » Thu Apr 11, 2024 2:53 am

app-editors/leafpad
app-editors/mousepad

My primary GUI text editor is leafpad. I keep mouepad for old time's sake.

logrusx · Post by **logrusx** » Thu Apr 11, 2024 5:40 am

geany

Best Regards,
Georgi

Post by **fedeliallalinea** » Thu Apr 11, 2024 6:28 am

vscodium?

FastTurtle · Post by **FastTurtle** » Thu Apr 11, 2024 6:53 am

Thanks for the suggestions. Forgot about nedit and will have to check the package list for both leafpad and mousepad

Not sure of the Sublime - have to check the license terms as some of them are stupid. If it's not GPL/BSD I don't bother with due to a lack of developer resources or if corporate, what are they selling?

EDIT:
Looked at the Sublime website and not very impressed. Couldn't find the license for Linux on it and it looks to be more of an afterthought meaning the license can and will change.

Like the looks of Mousepad so it may be useful to me. Leafpad is a bit to sparse now - appears closer to notepad but still usable.

Post by **Chiitoo** » Thu Apr 11, 2024 9:33 am

If Qt is not an issue:

- Featherpad

and

- Feathernotes

with different use-cases are pretty good.

Oh... notes is only in my local overlay still... hmmm.

flexibeast · Post by **flexibeast** » Thu Apr 11, 2024 1:49 pm

FastTurtle wrote:Looked at the Sublime website and not very impressed. Couldn't find the license for Linux on it and it looks to be more of an afterthought meaning the license can and will change.

Not that i'm a Sublime user / advocate myself - i use Emacs and Vi(m)

- but for future reference, the licenses for software available in the main repo are available in `var/db/repos/gentoo/licenses/`. In particular, that directory contains a file called `Sublime`.

xaviermiller · Post by **xaviermiller** » Fri Apr 12, 2024 7:08 am

and also
app-editors/scite

flexibeast · Post by **flexibeast** » Fri Apr 12, 2024 7:48 am

i've just added FeatherPad to the list of GUI editors on the 'Text editor' page on the wiki; if people have any editor recommendations that aren't already included on the page, please feel free to add them.