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Notepad is a very basic editor. Likewise, most Linux distros come with nano or some other very feature-limited editor.

While I did once know a developer who used notepad as his primary editor, it was never intended to be anything but a very simple editor for INI files and the like.



Nano has syntax highlighting, auto-indent, spellcheck, regex search/replace, and overwrite prevention. It's clearly in a class beyond Notepad.


Yeah, I think it's safe to say most Linux and macOS systems don't have an editor as basic as Notepad (even ed has regex support!) The closest equivalent I can think of is Mousepad from Xfce. I don't really see the need for it either. If your distro comes with something like nano, gedit or KWrite out of the box, why would you need something like Notepad?




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