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# Pineapple Notepad
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Pineapple Notepad aims to be a simple, lightweight, and easy to use notepad application that can be a cross-platform alternative to Notepad++. It's based on [Scintilla](https://www.scintilla.org/), [Qt](https://www.qt.io/) and [KDE Framework](https://develop.kde.org/products/frameworks/), and plan to be available on Windows, Linux and macOS.
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## Pricing
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Pineapple Notepad itself will be free of charge. Note that it *might* be closed source at launch. See the following section if you want to support Pineapple Notepad and make it open source.
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## Feature Comparation Table
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| Feature | `Pineapple Notepad` | `Notepad++` | `Notepad Next` | `Notepad--` | `Kate` |
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| ------- | ------------------- | ----------- | -------------- | ----------- | ------ |
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| Open Source | ❔[^1] | ✅ | ✅ | ❌ | ✅ |
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| Cross Platform | ✅ | ❌ (Win-only) | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
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| Text Encoding | ✅ | ✅ | ❌ | ✅ | ✅ |
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| Show All Characters | ✅ | ✅ | ⚠️[^2] | ⚠️[^2] | ❌[^5] |
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| Session Restore | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
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| Hi-DPI Support | ✅ | ⚠️[^3] | ✅ | ⚠️[^3] | ✅ |
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| Dark Theme Support | ✅ | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | ✅ |
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| Side-by-Side View | ❌[^6] | ✅ | ⚠️[^4] | ❌ | ✅ |
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| Customizable Toolbar | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ✅ |
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| Macro Recording | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ❌ |
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| Editor Engine | Scintilla | Scintilla | Scintilla | QScintilla | KTextEdit |
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[^1]: Currently not released yet. Planned to be Open Source once Open Source Sponsor Goal is reached.
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[^2]: Some non-printable characters are not able to be shown.
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[^3]: Some components have known issues with Hi-DPI support.
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[^4]: Available as custom-tailored docking system.
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[^5]: I created an add-on for this feature, but currently showing line ending is not possible to implement.
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[^6]: Not planned in the initial release, might be added in the future.
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## Open Source Goal
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Pineapple Notepad is currently not an open source project, but the goal is to make Pineapple Notepad open source. I've set-up a $150 Ko-fi goal that Pineapple Notepad will be released as an Open-Source project if the goal is reached. Please read [this post](https://ko-fi.com/post/Pineapple-Notepad-A-Cross-platform-Notepad--Alte-G2G71V8JPX) for details. If you're interested, please use the following links to support this project.
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### Sponsor Benefits
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Before the goal is reached, if you support Pineapple Notepad for equial or more than $10, you will be credited within the application's About dialog as a kickstart supporter. The name will be kept for at least 10 releases, after that, the name might be moved a standalone `THANKS` file in the source repository.
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*If you have questions about sponsor benefits, please reach out to me by creating an issue or drop me a message on Ko-fi or any other form that can be reached.*
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### Funding
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[](https://ko-fi.com/blumia)
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[Afdian](https://afdian.com/a/BLumia)
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## License
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Depends on if we can reach the Open Source Sponsor Goal. This section will be updated once the goal is reached.
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Before that happens, Pineapple Notepad is planned to be released under the [CC-BY-ND-4.0](https://spdx.org/licenses/CC-BY-ND-4.0.html) license.
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