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Oh, come on, does text editing really use so many cycles that switching to Notepad++'s automations would really enable the CPU to throttle down? I'd think it'd be throttled down already for most text editing environments, if the user has that enabled.
Learn to enjoy a good joke, it'll help you enjoy life more.
This personal favorite from their About page lives on: "By optimizing as many routines as possible without losing user friendliness, Notepad++ is trying to reduce the world carbon dioxide emissions. When using less CPU power, the PC can throttle down and reduce power consumption, resulting in a greener environment." Gotta love such bold goals from a text editor :)
I know that optimizing software for carbon footprint is probably going against The Economy itself, but isn't it the point where our current economy of consumption and growth is leading us to destruction? Maybe there is way to incentivize savings more?
This personal favorite from their About page lives on: "By optimizing as many routines as possible without losing user friendliness, Notepad++ is trying to reduce the world carbon dioxide emissions. When using less CPU power, the PC can throttle down and reduce power consumption, resulting in a greener environment." Gotta love such bold goals from a text editor :)
I'd like to use this joke as an opportunity for a more serious point. It's a thing that I actually always wondered. Why is the industry spending so much time advocating that we can write however unoptimal code we like, because it's always cheaper to throw in another server? Wouldn't spending time to optimize software be able to create serious savings in worldwide emissions, given that any given piece of software is l…
I come from a Windows background and recently switched to Mac at work. I'm a pretty heavy user of Notepad++ but so far all the good text editors I've found for Mac are shareware. What good free text editors do you recommend on Mac that have similar features, like syntax highlighting, auto-indent, and regular expression support?
plus if my view counts, i would like a UI overhaul. Its still very XP-eyee.
I come from a Windows background and recently switched to Mac at work. I'm a pretty heavy user of Notepad++ but so far all the good text editors I've found for Mac are shareware. What good free text editors do you recommend on Mac that have similar features, like syntax highlighting, auto-indent, and regular expression support?
gedit: http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/binaries/mac/gedit/3.2/ text wrangler: http://www.barebones.com/products/textwrangler/download.html redcar: http://redcareditor.com/ but you're really not gonna get any better than textmate or sublime text 2
But Notepad++ requires a binary blob called "Windows".
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