howl
The Howl Editor (by howl-editor)
notepadqq
A simple, general-purpose editor for Linux (by notepadqq)
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| howl | notepadqq | |
|---|---|---|
| 3 | 21 | |
| 709 | 2,073 | |
| 0.7% | 0.7% | |
| 0.0 | 2.3 | |
| 3 days ago | 11 months ago | |
| HTML | JavaScript | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
howl
Posts with mentions or reviews of howl.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-12-11.
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What are peoples favorite free and open source software
There are many but I want to do some advertisement for Howl
- If anyone uses Atom (the text editor), it's be sunset on December 15, 2022
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Linux newbie, looking for advice on finding a program or making own for specific niche, also any reccomendation stuff?
howl
notepadqq
Posts with mentions or reviews of notepadqq.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-28.
- NotepadNext – a cross-platform, reimplementation of Notepad++
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When switching to Linux, what were some programs that you had to stop using because they weren't supported on Linux?
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.
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There is absolutely no going back.
Not cross platform as the program is written for the win32 API, notepadqq is an okay replacement for it on Linux though.
- What are some linux utilities/tools/apps you would want to have, that don't exist and think would be really useful.
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What are peoples favorite free and open source software
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++.
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notepad++ replacement (need something that is similar to the compare plugin to compare two files w/color coding)?
Take a look at Notepad qq it is meant to be a notepad ++ replacement https://notepadqq.com
- CotEditor – Lightweight Plain-Text Editor for macOS
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Now that Atom has been discontinued - where to next?
Heard the Linux Fork of Notepad++ is a super well running editor with plugin support: https://github.com/notepadqq/notepadqq
- I got made fun of for using Notepad++
- Notepad Next
What are some alternatives?
When comparing howl and notepadqq you can also consider the following projects:
tilde - The Tilde text editor
notepad-plus-plus - Notepad++ official repository
Coursera-Clone - Coursera clone
NotepadNext - A cross-platform, reimplementation of Notepad++
ash - A modern terminal text editor
Geany - A fast and lightweight IDE
micro-editor - A modern and intuitive terminal-based text editor
NPP_HexEdit - Notepad++ Plugin Hexedit
Visual Studio Code - Visual Studio Code
czkawka - Multi functional app to find duplicates, empty folders, similar images etc.
flameshot - Powerful yet simple to use screenshot software :desktop_computer: :camera_flash: