Native Linux port of Notepad++ / macOS Nextpad++, built on GTK4 + Scintilla.
Highlights
- Full editor: multi-caret & column editing, macros, code folding, auto-completion for 33 languages, 45 encodings, sessions & backups.
- Five-tab Find window — Find / Replace / Find in Files / Find in Projects / Mark — with regex and fuzzy search.
- Dockable/floating side panels (Document List, Function List, Document Map, Folder as Workspace, Git…), split view, tab colors/pinning.
- Light/dark mode, the 22 Notepad++ themes, Style Configurator, User Defined Languages, and the optional Tahoe-inspired look.
- 26 plugins ported day one — including MCP Server and LuaScript — one-click install from Plugins Admin (per-arch, checksum-verified).
- Measured macOS parity: ~340 menu items, 16 Preferences panes, Windows Notepad++ shortcut layout, new Window menu.
- Small: ~5 MB download, ~32 MB installed, under 300 MB RAM in use.
Install
- Debian / Ubuntu / Mint:
sudo apt install ./Nextpad++v1.1.0_amd64.deb(or_arm64) - Fedora / RHEL 10+ / openSUSE:
sudo dnf install ./Nextpad++v1.1.0_amd64.rpm(or_arm64)
Built on Ubuntu 24.04 — needs GTK 4.14+ / glibc 2.38+. Also on the Snap Store (snap install nextpad).