PSPad: A freeware programmer's editor for Windows

Post by pjmlp » Tue, Apr 20, 2021, 11:19 AM UTC

qbasic_forever wrote: post #34

shp0ngle wrote: post #33

One of the good things about Windows is the backwards compat. I know this particular code has been updated in 2021, sure, but in general, you can take binary from early 2000s and it will run on Windows 10 most likely. (OK, games and rich "multimedia CD-ROMs" from that era have problems, but it holds in general.) In linux, it kinda holds, because everything is open-source anyway, but binaries in general are not compat…

Just because you can doesn't mean you should run something that old. I would not want to run a 21 year old native application written in C or C++ from a different era of security consciousness on any modern machine. Certainly not anything connected to the internet--remember that was the hey-day of massive worms that crippled entire networks of machines. If the source hasn't been touched in decades, treat it like an a…

Post by dalaidunc » Tue, Apr 20, 2021, 12:33 PM UTC

drKarl wrote: post #20

For anyone who loves Vim but also the extensibility of Visual Studio Code I suggest you take a look to Onivim 2 https://www.onivim.io/ Disclaimer: I'm a user of Onivim 2 but I'm in no way affiliated with the author.

Post by teh_klev » Tue, Apr 20, 2021, 2:01 PM UTC

badsectoracula wrote: post #45

qbasic_forever wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Just because you can doesn't mean you should run something that old. I would not want to run a 21 year old native application written in C or C++ from a different era of security consciousness on any modern machine. Certainly not anything connected to the internet--remember that was the hey-day of massive worms that crippled entire networks of machines. If the source hasn't been touched in decades, treat it like an a…

I'm using Paint Shop Pro 7 as my main image editor[0], it has the best UX of any image editor i've used, was released 21 years ago and i have zero concerns about its security - not because i expect it to be secure (chances are it is using, e.g., a jpeg library with security bugs) but because there isn't any use case where that would matter. Similarly i use Delphi 2 and C++ Builder (both around 25 years old) now and t…

Post by anthk » Tue, Apr 20, 2021, 2:05 PM UTC

Arkanosis wrote: post #25

PSPad is probably the editor in which I've written most of my code as I was learning programming on my own (mostly PHP on Windows XP, old times…). Before that, I had used Notepad (yes, I did!), Notepad2 and Notepad++, but PSPad had so many features, so well integrated together that I used it almost exclusively. At some point, I had to switch because… you know… NetBSD. And it was a real pain to start working with Emac…

Post by itsthecourier » Tue, Apr 20, 2021, 2:13 PM UTC