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Re: PSPad: A freeware programmer's editor for Windows

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Post by anaganisk »

Jonnax wrote: post #7
mattowen_uk wrote: post #3

Wow, 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.

Technically vscscode isn't open source completely, it has many proprietary features.

Re: PSPad: A freeware programmer's editor for Windows

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Post by RicoElectrico »

bantunes wrote: post #8

Unrelated, 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.

The icons and color scheme remind me of Office 2000.

Re: PSPad: A freeware programmer's editor for Windows

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Post by recentdarkness »

bantunes wrote: post #8

Unrelated, 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.

What do you mean by 'design language'? It was a WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) editor, at least as far as I know.

What 'design language' are you speaking off? It was supposed to be HTML in the end (well whatever that meant in those editors :D)

Re: PSPad: A freeware programmer's editor for Windows

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Post by dagw »

anaganisk wrote: post #11
Jonnax wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Technically vscscode isn't open source completely, it has many proprietary features.

Which features are closed source? I thought the only difference the source on GitHub and the binary you download from Microsoft was branding and configuration.

Re: PSPad: A freeware programmer's editor for Windows

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Post by oaiey »

dagw wrote: post #14
anaganisk wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Technically vscscode isn't open source completely, it has many proprietary features.

Which features are closed source? I thought the only difference the source on GitHub and the binary you download from Microsoft was branding and configuration.

Some of the extensions .. C# Debugger, Remote Server on WSL, SSH, Docker, whatever, Liveshare

The modern magic stuff. but the core editor is like you described.

Oh, and the market place itself.

Re: PSPad: A freeware programmer's editor for Windows

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Post by drKarl »

anaganisk wrote: post #11
Jonnax wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Technically vscscode isn't open source completely, it has many proprietary features.

For a version of VSCode without the telemetry you can use VSCodium

Re: PSPad: A freeware programmer's editor for Windows

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Post by TeMPOraL »

poisonborz wrote: post #10
mattowen_uk wrote: post #3

Wow, 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

If by "everyone" you mean "developers when doing development work".

I work in a Windows shop these days, and I see Notepad++ used by everyone - developers and managers alike - for poking around various configuration and log files.

Re: PSPad: A freeware programmer's editor for Windows

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Post by drKarl »

poisonborz wrote: post #10
mattowen_uk wrote: post #3

Wow, 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

For small edits, look at logs, scratchpad, open JSON or XML files Notepad++ > UltraEdit > Sublime Text

For FrontEnd development Atom is nice but bloated > VSCode (arguably > Vim)

For Java development Eclipse (or variants like RAD, STS) > IntelliJ Idea

for other languages your mileage may vary...

Re: PSPad: A freeware programmer's editor for Windows

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Post by JediPig »

Jonnax wrote: post #7
mattowen_uk wrote: post #3

Wow, 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.

ST4 is about to be released. The LSP plugin in ST4 brings it to the level of VSCode.

I find this good news, mainly, i hate electron apps. ST4 speed is legendary.

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