Notepad==

Have you ever wanted to jot something down on a Unix system and wished the Windows Notepad were there? Then you can use Notepad==! Notepad== is a quick and simple text editor for POSIX systems. It's also a good replacement for the newly bloated UWP Notepad and has more support for encoding and such.

Linux

• Download latest dev source code from the Linux section of this repository: https://github.com/matthewyang204/NotepadEE/tree/main/Linux
• These binaries are next to the Windows binaries
• Any Debian-based distro should work for building
• Any GUI distro from the last 10-15 years should work for running binaries
• You need Python 3.4 or later

Linux build instructions:

• Please clone the repo and cd into it
• If you haven't yet, please run the dpinstall script to install dependencies to your system
• Type ./configure && make && sudo make install to build from source and install
• If the ./configure script needs to install stuff, enter your password if prompted
• You can use sudo make upgrade instead of sudo make install to directly update your existing installation
• Requires Debian-based distro to build
• Source code is in the Linux folder; Windows source code is in separate Windows folder

macOS

Source code located in the macOS section.

Any Mac capable of running Python 3.4 works for building. Your Mac must be capable of running OS X 10.4 Tiger or later. OS X 10.5 Leopard is the earliest version of OS X supported by Python 3.4, so it is the earliest officially supported version. However, Tiger is also fine because it can actually run a very modern version of Python (3.10.16) via Tigerbrew.

Hackintoshes are supported.

I have separate binaries for Intel and Apple Silicon macs. Please download the correct one. I have signed it with a self-signed signature and can't afford the full Apple Developer notarization. On macOS Sonoma or below, you can bypass the warnings by right-clicking the app and selecting "Open". On macOS Sequioa or later, you will need to disable Gatekeeper entirely by running sudo spctl --master-disable and then selecting "Anywhere" at the bottom of the Privacy & Security section of the settings in the "Allow apps from" setting. Alternatively, you may want to use homebrew, which is capable of bypassing Gatekeeper on installation with a single flag.

To use it, first, tap my homebrew repo by running brew tap matthewyang204/homebrew-formulae-casks. After this, you can install the cask with brew install --cask --no-quarantine notepadee. Also, installing with Homebrew will add a convenient notepadee command that launches the app from the terminal. Simply run notepadee for a new blank editor, or run notepadee <yourfile> to open a file.

All of the prebuilt binaries provided in the Releases support macOS Catalina or newer.

Signing info for prebuilt binaries:

• Self-signed signature
• Name of signature is "Matthew Yang"

Prebuild requirements:

• Python 3.4 - 3.13 in PATH, built with tkinter support
• make installed
• gettext and tcl-tk@8 installed

Build instructions:

1. Clone the repository and navigate to the macOS folder inside of it
2. Run chmod +x autogen.sh to give the script execute permissions.
3. Run ./autogen.sh --arch=<x86_64 or arm64> to automatically configure and build. Note that --arch is optional and if you only want to compile for your machine's native architecture, just run ./autogen.sh. You can also use --gettext=<yourgettext> to specify a gettext install root dir and --tcl-tk=<yourtcltk> to specify custom tcl-tk install root dir, assuming both tcl and tk are installed in the same prefix. They must be installed in the same prefix.
4. After you're done compiling, you can use sudo make install to install.

Windows

Source code located in the Windows section

Any PC running Windows 7/10 or later works depending on what installer you use

Requirements

• Windows 10 x64 or later
• Additional requirements may be needed for building from source:
  • Windows 7 or later is supported for building from source, but Windows 10 or later is recommended
  • A MSYS/MinGW environment (e.g. Git Bash, MSYS2, Cygwin)
  • Python 3.6 or later (Python 3.4 and 3.5 are fine if you are okay with arduous manual builds and such)
  • Inno Setup

Build instructions

• Please clone the repo and cd into the Windows folder
• ./configure - configure the stuff
• make -j<number of CPU cores> - build with pyinstaller
• make bin-dist - create installer with Inno Setup

Installation

Installing from the precompiled binaries:

• x64 Windows installers (.exe) for Windows 10 or later are available in the Releases section of this repository
• Simply download the installer and run it
• Support:
  • Windows 10 or later for official installers
  • Windows 7 and 8 may work but only with custom-built installers - official installers are not built for these versions due to small Python incompatibilities

Upgrading:

• You can directly run the new installer to upgrade

License

This project is licensed under the GNU General Public License v3.0 (GPLv3).
All past and future versions of Notepad== are covered by this license.
See the LICENSE file for full details.