notepad(1)

notepad1

Wine text editor

Usage

notepad [text file]

Overview

notepad is the Wine text editor, designed to be compatible with its Microsoft Windows counterpart. It supports ANSI, UTF-8 and UTF-16 files, and can read (but not write) files with Unix line endings.

Releases

3 releases since Debian 3.0 (Woody); the text changed 2 times.

  1. 3.0
  2. 7
  3. Arch

Bugs

Bugs can be reported on the Wine bug tracker ⟨https://bugs.winehq.org⟩.

Availability

notepad is part of the Wine distribution, which is available through WineHQ, the Wine development headquarters ⟨https://www.winehq.org/⟩.

From wine 11.21-1 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Also shipped by wine-staging. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.