PSPad: A freeware programmer's editor for Windows
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Re: PSPad: A freeware programmer's editor for Windows
#2Searched for "LSP" and "Language Server Protocol" and did not find any mentions.
Unfortunately, I think the programming languages are getting too complex for an editor to try to maintain smart browsing, smart formatting, code completion, etc. Language Server Protocol allows this language work to be done once by people who are generally actively tracking the language.
I think in 2021, a programmer's editor without Language Server Protocol support is hopelessly hampered.
Re: PSPad: A freeware programmer's editor for Windows
#3Wow, I'd totally forgotten about PSPad... it used to be my editor of choice back in the XP days. These days I use Notepad++ (doesn't everyone on Windows?).
I think PSPad could benefit from new screenshots on its website, even though it's clearly still being actively updated, the screenshots make it look like it stagnated 10 years ago.
Re: PSPad: A freeware programmer's editor for Windows
#4Wow, I'd totally forgotten about PSPad... it used to be my editor of choice back in the XP days. These days I use Notepad++ (doesn't everyone on Windows?). I think PSPad could benefit from new screenshots on its website, even though it's clearly still being actively updated, the screenshots make it look like it stagnated 10 years ago.
> These days I use Notepad++ (doesn't everyone on Windows?).
I did 10 years ago, but I'm now using vscode (with a stint of sublime in the meantime!)
Re: PSPad: A freeware programmer's editor for Windows
#5PSPad has been my main text editor (not IDE) for almost 20 years now. Such a great piece of software.
Re: PSPad: A freeware programmer's editor for Windows
#6Huh, blast from the past! It's been just a bit over 10 years since I donated to PSPad. My first editor when I got into programming as a kid.
Directly edit on FTP hosts was one of my favourite features. I would edit php websites directly... Until I lost absolutely everything one day and soon after switched the editor.
Re: PSPad: A freeware programmer's editor for Windows
#7Wow, I'd totally forgotten about PSPad... it used to be my editor of choice back in the XP days. These days I use Notepad++ (doesn't everyone on Windows?). I think PSPad could benefit from new screenshots on its website, even though it's clearly still being actively updated, the screenshots make it look like it stagnated 10 years ago.
Sublime is what I moved from Notepad++ from.
It has good extensions and is very fast.
These days I use Visual Studio Code. It's separate to Visual Studio. Code is open source and runs on Linux and OSX as well.
There's a ton of extensions and it's super flexible.
Re: PSPad: A freeware programmer's editor for Windows
#8Unrelated, but hope someone here knows: what was the name for Microsoft's design language around 2002? Example for Frontpage https://media.codeweavers.com/pub/crossover/website/appdb/b7...
Looking for any info on its principles, or anything really.
Re: PSPad: A freeware programmer's editor for Windows
#9Searched for "LSP" and "Language Server Protocol" and did not find any mentions. Unfortunately, I think the programming languages are getting too complex for an editor to try to maintain smart browsing, smart formatting, code completion, etc. Language Server Protocol allows this language work to be done once by people who are generally actively tracking the language. I think in 2021, a programmer's editor without Lan…
I for one am happy that PSPad takes less than half a second to launch and has a memory footprint of less than 10MB. If I wanted a fancy IDE with perfect syntax highlighting, I wouldn't be using PSPad. I have other tools for that. There's a space for editors that are more complex than Notepad and less complex than your average IDE, and PSPad fits right into that space.
Re: PSPad: A freeware programmer's editor for Windows
#10Wow, I'd totally forgotten about PSPad... it used to be my editor of choice back in the XP days. These days I use Notepad++ (doesn't everyone on Windows?). I think PSPad could benefit from new screenshots on its website, even though it's clearly still being actively updated, the screenshots make it look like it stagnated 10 years ago.
> These days I use Notepad++ (doesn't everyone on Windows?)
In terms of souped up text editor, the exact transition that "everyone" made since:
Notepad++ > Sublime Text > Atom > VSCode