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what are the good alternatives to Notepad++ for code editing in Lubuntu? I'm a web designer mostly wanting a good editor for php, html and css editing. I've been using Notepad++ on Windows so something similar will be nice. But I'm ready to tryout other programs which maybe different or have better features. Thanks

Aksam Zarook
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There are three that come to mind quickly.

  1. Atom
  2. Sublime Text 3

Atom is the new kid on the block. Atom is made by the people over at github. You can coutomize it to your hearts content. Atom is fully free, and will never ask you for money.

Sublime Text is the old man in the group. Sublime has been around for a long time. This is the editor that I started with even before I started to use Linux. You can fully customize Sublime and make it look however you want. Sublime is a free text editor but after 30 or 60 days i forget which it will start to ask you to buy a license. If you wait a minute or so you can click cancel and keep using it.

Will M.
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Use Sublime Text or Brackets. Brackets is more focussed on web development with live preview features which help a lot. you can download both of them from their website, they give .deb packages directly

Ashish
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If you are looking for primarily php, html, and css, go for Webstorm. It is definitely one of the best web development apps out there that is available for Linux. It advertises Javascript, but it's amazing for all things web development.

Otherwise, code wide - I use gedit, which only highlights / colorizes the code source much like Notepad++ will. Extremely useful for random programs, quick editing, etc.

AlwaysTalkingAboutMyDog
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If you're already familair with Notepad++ I would recommend Notepadqq.

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:notepadqq-team/notepadqq
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install notepadqq

Note: this apparently won't work on Ubuntu 12.04

kalenpw
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