 Nopad++ is one of those applications that a lot of people really liked and that a lot of people really missed when they switched to Linux. And there have been many attempts over the years to re-implement that application on Linux but with a different name or with different features or whatever. And some of those projects have been fairly successful. Nopad QQ is a really good text editor and I know a lot of people who use it. But that doesn't mean that there aren't more developers out there trying to implement a perfect version of Nopad++ on Linux. And what we're going to be looking at today is another attempt at bringing a Nopad++ experience to the Linux system. The application is called Nopad Next. And it is very early days so as we go into this you'll see that there are a lot of features that are missing. And even on their GitHub page they say that this is a very early project and you shouldn't trust it with large documents or important documents. That is prone to some bugs because it's an early development. So just keep that in mind as we go through because it is very light on features. In terms of like settings and things like that. So let's go ahead and take a look at Nopad Next. So this is what Nopad Next looks like. And if you have ever used Nopad++ or Nopad QQ you'll see that there are quite a few similarities between those applications in this one. And it is a very well laid out text editor and not one that is going to give you any surprises at all. Along the bottom you have some status information. Now this part over here where the folder is workspace stuff is that's something that is not on by default but that you can enable if you want. Basically what it does is gives you access to an entire directory full of content so you can switch between them fairly easily. And that is something that a lot of text editors do so that it's here is very nice. Now a few things you should know going in. The first one is that it doesn't have support at least as far as I'm aware for code suggestions. I'm sure that there is a plan to implement that in the future but right now there's nothing here like that. It does however if you type in import like this if it's already in the document it will give you that suggestion so that you don't have to type the whole thing out. It does the same thing in pretty much every language. It does support quite a few languages so things like bash Python Haskell see all those things are here as far as comparing it to more mature text editors and their language support. It's quite light but it does support quite a few languages which is really good for a fairly new application. It also has macro support so if you need to set a macro or record a macro that for something that you do over and over again that is functionality that exists. It also has really good find and replace so if you need to find something in your document it can find and replace it through a very extensive search which is very nice. Especially if you're working with a long document and that's something that notepad plus plus also excel that so that it's here is again very nice. It doesn't do a very good job of being a markdown editor. So when I decided to download this the first thing I tested was the markdown because that's going to be something that I am very interested in because that's what I would use it for. And the markdown stuff is not great. It reminds me of them kind of to be honest with you. It doesn't change any of the headings or anything like that. It does do bold and italics just fine but the headers seem to be completely ignored. So if you're interested in using this for markdown just know that you're not going to get any of the fancy features that you might get with a dedicated markdown editor. Now if what you're looking for is a very simple text editor we could stop here and you'd probably be fairly fine with this application. But if you're looking for something that's a little bit more full featured when you're starting to look into this application for those features you might be a little bit disappointed. So the first place where you can kind of see this is in the settings panel. If we go up here to preferences that's all the settings that there are. There's no more. There's no ability to change the font, the font size. There's no ability to change things like the indentation settings or the tab settings things like that. None of that stuff is here as far as I'm aware. I've searched through the application now for a little while and I haven't seen that stuff. So the settings of the application it leaves quite a bit to be desired. Now remember it's still very new. Eventually I'm sure they'll implement that stuff but right now it's not here. One thing that I didn't mention earlier because I just assumed that it was obvious they do a very good job of syntax highlighting. So if you're using a programming language that it supports it will do syntax highlighting very well. So that's not something that you have to worry about. Another place that it falls down a little bit is when it comes to documentation. So because this is a very new project documentation has obviously not been a priority for them yet. Their GitHub page is fairly sparse when it comes to documentation. It tells you how to install it and that's basically it. It does have a release page where you can kind of see what has changed in the most recent versions which is nice. But it doesn't have a wiki or anything like that. It's not that big of a deal because it's just a text editor but it's definitely something that I noticed. And the last thing that I noticed that is kind of lacking is that it doesn't follow either GTK or Qt themings. It's a Qt application so you'd expect it to follow the Qt application theming that you have set on your system. I have a dark theme set. It doesn't follow it. So I'm not sure why it doesn't follow it. It should but it doesn't. So maybe that's something to do with my machine. My machine tends to be very finicky when it comes to Qt apps because I'm using window manager. And for some reason sometimes applications just don't follow the theme. So that's possible but it's still something that I noticed. Because of course I noticed something to do with theming that's kind of my shtick. Anyways the application itself is fairly usable. I can't say that I've seen anything that I would qualify as a bug more just missing features. And it's definitely one of those things that it is very early days on in terms of stuff that would be very beneficial for people who are going to use this for programming. If you're going to use this for in-depth programming you're probably not going to be very happy with it yet. Just because there are some things that are just missing right. And there are more fully featured options out there when it comes to that kind of stuff. So if you're looking for a fully fledged IDE this is not going to be it. At least not yet. So that is Notepad Next. I always like the fact that developers take time out of their day to create applications that are replacing ones that were popular on Windows. Simply because the more alternatives we have to popular Windows applications the better in my opinion. The fact that Notepad Next exists is a good thing and I hope that they continue development on it. They have done a really good job of that. If you look at their commit history they do a lot of commits. So this is an application that is quickly improving. So if you are interested in checking this out the link will be in the video description. 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