A native Linux port of the Notepad++ text editor, built with Qt6 and QScintilla.
Notepad++ Linux brings the core features of Notepad++ to Linux without Wine or compatibility layers. It is built with Qt6 and QScintilla and targets practical feature parity with the Windows version.
- Multi-tab interface with closable, movable, reorderable tabs
- Multi-cursor editing (Ctrl+Click to add cursors, type at all positions)
- Column/block selection (Alt+Drag or Alt+Shift+Arrows)
- Auto-close brackets and quotes with skip-over and backspace pair delete
- Smart highlighting of all occurrences of a selected word
- Line operations: sort, remove duplicates, remove blank lines, join, split, move, duplicate, reverse
- Case conversion: UPPERCASE, lowercase, Title Case, Sentence case, iNVERT cAsE
- Code folding, brace matching, auto-indent, auto-completion
- Word wrap, zoom, current line highlighting
- Drag-and-drop file opening from file manager
- Find and replace with regular expression support
- Find in Files with threaded search and clickable results
- Incremental search bar with live match highlighting and count (Ctrl+Alt+I)
- Bookmarks: toggle (Ctrl+F2), navigate (F2/Shift+F2), cut/copy/delete/paste bookmarked lines
- Go to line (Ctrl+G)
- Document switcher (Ctrl+Tab) with all open tabs
- Horizontal and vertical split editing
- Move or clone documents between views
- Switch focus between views (F8)
- Function List: navigate functions, classes, and methods by language
- Folder as Workspace: directory tree with file operations
- Document map (minimap)
Supported languages: C, C++, Python, JavaScript, Java, HTML, CSS, XML, SQL, Bash, JSON, YAML, Perl
- Print and print preview with syntax highlighting (Ctrl+P)
- Macro recording, playback, and persistent storage with keyboard shortcuts
- Word count and text statistics
- Line ending conversion (CRLF, LF, CR)
- Base64 and URL encode/decode
- MD5 and SHA256 hash generation
- Run Python, JavaScript, or compile C/C++ directly
- Launch HTML in browser
- Tab context menu: close, close others, copy path, rename, reveal in folder
- Session persistence and restore
- Recent files tracking
- External file modification detection
- Encoding support: UTF-8, UTF-16, ANSI
- Backup and auto-save system
- Settings import/export
- Themes: Light, Dark, Monokai
- Full-screen / distraction-free mode (F11)
- Show whitespace, end-of-line characters, indent guides
- Customizable fonts and colors
- 10-category preferences dialog
- Clickable status bar: position, encoding, line ending, language, file size
Available in the Ubuntu Software app or install from the command line:
sudo snap install notepadplusplus
Download the latest .deb from Releases:
sudo dpkg -i notepadplusplus-1.2.0-Linux.deb
sudo apt-get install -f # if dependencies are missing- Linux (Ubuntu 20.04+ or equivalent)
- Qt6 (6.0+) or Qt5 (5.15+)
- QScintilla2
- CMake 3.16+
- GCC 9+ with C++17 support
# Ubuntu/Debian (Qt6)
sudo apt install qt6-base-dev qt6-base-dev-tools libqscintilla2-qt6-dev cmake build-essential
# Ubuntu/Debian (Qt5 fallback)
sudo apt install qt5-default libqscintilla2-qt5-dev cmake build-essentialgit clone https://github.com/mixelpixx/notepad-plus-plus-linux.git
cd notepad-plus-plus-linux
mkdir build && cd build
cmake ..
make -j$(nproc)
sudo make install./notepadplusplus # Start with empty editor
./notepadplusplus file1.cpp file2.py # Open specific files| Action | Shortcut |
|---|---|
| New file | Ctrl+N |
| Open | Ctrl+O |
| Save | Ctrl+S |
| Close | Ctrl+W |
| Ctrl+P | |
| Find | Ctrl+F |
| Replace | Ctrl+H |
| Find in Files | Ctrl+Shift+F |
| Incremental Search | Ctrl+Alt+I |
| Go to Line | Ctrl+G |
| Document Switcher | Ctrl+Tab |
| Toggle Bookmark | Ctrl+F2 |
| Next Bookmark | F2 |
| Previous Bookmark | Shift+F2 |
| Duplicate Line | Ctrl+D |
| Move Line Up/Down | Alt+Up/Down |
| UPPERCASE | Ctrl+Shift+U |
| lowercase | Ctrl+U |
| Full Screen | F11 |
| Zoom In/Out | Ctrl+Plus/Minus |
| Reset Zoom | Ctrl+0 |
| Start Macro | Ctrl+Shift+R |
| Play Macro | Ctrl+Shift+P |
| Focus Other View | F8 |
| Run Command | F5 |
core/ Main application logic
Application.cpp Application controller
MainWindow.cpp Window, menus, actions
MainWindow_impl.cpp Menu action implementations
EditorWidget.cpp QScintilla editor wrapper
MacroManager.cpp Macro recording and playback
BackupManager.cpp Auto-save and backup
ui/ UI components
FindReplaceDialog.cpp
FindInFilesDialog.cpp
IncrementalSearchBar.cpp
DocumentMapPanel.cpp
FunctionListPanel.cpp
WorkspacePanel.cpp
DocumentSwitcher.cpp
ClickableLabel.cpp
PreferencesDialog.cpp
utils/ Utilities
ConfigManager.cpp Settings persistence
platform/ Platform abstraction
LinuxPlatform.cpp
resources/ Application resources
images/ Logo and icons
- Fork the repository
- Create a feature branch
- Follow Qt coding conventions and C++17
- Submit a pull request
GNU General Public License v3.0 -- see LICENSE.
- Don Ho -- creator of the original Notepad++
- Qt Project -- application framework
- QScintilla -- text editing component
- Notepad++ community -- feature requirements and testing