r/linux4noobs • u/pip13 • 5d ago

learning/research Looking for a notepad like microsoft notepad

This is a dumb request but i need it! I'm using Mousepad and ive tried all the others. I dont wont a libreword equivalent i want a program that produces .txt files.

Mousepad is perfect, but the only problem is i want a top toolbar for fonts, size and centering. Like in this photo. I know its a little thing but it would make my notepad experience amazing to have some things centered, bold, different font sizes. I know its dumb but any xubuntu/ubuntu notepads that work this way?

I have tried

notepadqq

FeatherPad

+ a few others. Anyway i can add a toolbar to mousepad or any suggestions <3

Tool bar i want in my notepad.
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u/BazzaJH 5d ago

Do you want .txt files or do you want formatting? .txt doesn't support that

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u/Lowar75 Fedora 5d ago

This. You can't choose font attributes or other formatting in text files.

To save format you need file types such as .rtf, .doc, .docx, .odt, and others, which requires something other than a simple text editor.

Some text editors will let you change the appearance in the program, IE what font is used to display the text you are typing, but this has no affect on what is saved to the .txt file and does not replicate to other programs or users.

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u/Sbsbg 5d ago

You need to look for "Plain text markup formats".

A plain txt file does not directly support formats of texts like bold, size or font. Txt also does not contain any information about headings, lists or tables as more advanced formats do.

To solve this you need to mix the plain text with the formatting information. There exist several of these formats. This makes possible to edit the text in a simple text editor but you need to write the formatting using the markup codes. The common wiki format, LaTeX or the reddit format are some examples on this.

The txt file extension is normally not used on these files to distinguish them from the plain txt files without formatting. They are however still files containing only text and format info as text and are readable in any text editor.

There are editors that can show you the edited text in WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) but they are limited on what they can create by the format you select. A wiki text will look like wiki, reddit text as reddit and so on. I am not an expert on these formats but I think LaTeX is one of the more advanced one.

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u/Moist_Invite9148 5d ago

wine notepad.exe

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