Geany VS notepadqq

You might want to at least use a code editor with syntax highlighting so that it gets a little easier to read the code. Personally I use Geany but there are many other ones you can use.

right on the main page, there is a screenshot. If you click it, it takes you to more screenshots.

Open https://www.geany.org/ in a web browser like chrome or firefox

Check out Geany. It is free, open source, cross platform, and lightweight. It has support for dozens of coding languages. LINK: https://www.geany.org/

I still enjoy Geany. It is lacking certain features I could do with, but it's joyful to use something that light: https://www.geany.org/

When I installed my IDE I just wanted something lightweight, so I went with Geany. I've been using it for years without trouble.

I would say, try out geany: https://www.geany.org/

Geany. Nothing can beat that one. - https://www.geany.org/

Link: https://www.geany.org/

You could give notepadqq a try, it is very close in look in feel to notepad++. I don't know if extensions/plugins would be compatible, though.

Not cross platform as the program is written for the win32 API, notepadqq is an okay replacement for it on Linux though.

Even though Notepad++ works pretty well with wine as far as I know, I would like to refer to https://notepadqq.com/. Visually, the editor is as close as possible to Notepad++.

Take a look at Notepad qq it is meant to be a notepad ++ replacement https://notepadqq.com

Heard the Linux Fork of Notepad++ is a super well running editor with plugin support: https://github.com/notepadqq/notepadqq