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Re: Notepad++ 6.0 Released

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Post by tudorw »

lclarkmichalek wrote: post #64
TeMPOraL wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

Pick a random article about a data centre, and see what it is about. Presuming nothing awful has happened at that data centre, it's almost certainly about some way the company has found to save money, and that usually means doing something innovative with cooling. And that is saving a hell of a lot of money. I'd be interested to see a break down of the energy consumption of a data centre; I imagine cooling is the big…

I Agree, I understand that in some data centers power is the main bottleneck on sales, not heat, emissions or hardware cost, there is plenty of interesting stuff going on here which is sympathetic to environmental considerations. http://www.engadget.com/2011/05/24/google-opening-seawater-c... http://www.comms-express.com/news/server-racks/servers-don-t...

Re: Notepad++ 6.0 Released

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Post by michael_fine »

xpose2000 wrote: post #28
pooriaazimi wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Try Sublime Text 2. It's fantastic (just like TextMate): http://www.sublimetext.com/2 It's free for now. Be sure to check Sublime package Manager. There are hundreds of Sublime extensions, many of which were ported directly from TextMate (and have .tmbundle suffix!): http://wbond.net/sublime_packages/package_control List of packages: http://wbond.net/sublime_packages/community#sort-installs

I just tried out Sublime Text 2. I can see the reason why its users like it. As for me, it seems to take somewhat easy tasks and makes them more difficult. Installing packages was a head-scratcher at first, even with your guidance. I'm just going to stick with Notepad++. It may not be pretty, but its straightforward and gets the job done.

Yeah, packages by default are hard on sublime. I recommend installing package control: http://wbond.net/sublime_packages/package_control

Re: Notepad++ 6.0 Released

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Post by derrida »

Maro wrote: post #70
derrida wrote: post #69

But Notepad++ requires a binary blob called "Windows".

Hi, sorry, I downvoted you. The Guidelines say: Please avoid introducing classic flamewar topics unless you have something genuinely new to say about them. Also. Please don't submit comments complaining that a submission is inappropriate for the site. If you think something is spam or offtopic, flag it by going to its page and clicking on the "flag" link. (Not all users will see this; there is a karma threshold.) If…

Sure, I understand. :-)

Re: Notepad++ 6.0 Released

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Post by merijnv »

Osiris wrote: post #18

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?

There is not a lot of incentive to create a free Notepad++-like text editor for OSX. OSX already ships with two excellent free text editors for the commandline (Emacs & vim) and there's GUI versions of both.

Any Cocoa/OSX specific GUI editor will suffer from being less powerful, less well tested and less portable (whereas vim/emacs are available on any imaginable platform, allowing you to keep your editing muscle memory).

Re: Notepad++ 6.0 Released

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Post by mulation »

Achshar wrote: post #67

everyone seems to be talking about how great notepad++ is. don't get me wrong, i love it too, in fact it is my primary editor. But why isn't anyone talking about the changes that came with the update? There seems to be no changes from UI perspective. They could have just released another small update. One expects major changes with a left-most version number change. Or am i missing something? plus if my view counts,…

Perl style regular expression support is a big thing! I use notepad++ a lot, but the search has always reminded me of vim.

Re: Notepad++ 6.0 Released

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Post by Someone »

mulation wrote: post #75
Achshar wrote: post #67

everyone seems to be talking about how great notepad++ is. don't get me wrong, i love it too, in fact it is my primary editor. But why isn't anyone talking about the changes that came with the update? There seems to be no changes from UI perspective. They could have just released another small update. One expects major changes with a left-most version number change. Or am i missing something? plus if my view counts,…

Perl style regular expression support is a big thing! I use notepad++ a lot, but the search has always reminded me of vim.

It is not only that it is Perl-style; this version also supports multiline regular expressions.

I do not like that it requires you to know a file's line endings to use them, though:

    Mac.   : a\rb
    Windows: a\r\nb
    Unix.  : a\nb

Re: Notepad++ 6.0 Released

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Post by electrotype »

gcp wrote: post #40

Does "Enhance the loading performance for the large file." mean it can edit files larger than your RAM now? UltraEdit could do this. I always find it unfortunate Notepad++ can't.

I use EditPad Pro instead of Notepad++ because of this. I'll try this new NotePad++ version today!

Re: Notepad++ 6.0 Released

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Post by electrotype »

electrotype wrote: post #77
gcp wrote: post #40

Does "Enhance the loading performance for the large file." mean it can edit files larger than your RAM now? UltraEdit could do this. I always find it unfortunate Notepad++ can't.

I use EditPad Pro instead of Notepad++ because of this. I'll try this new NotePad++ version today!

Sadly I just tested it and it's still not that good with large files.

I created a 185MB text file. It opens well, but:

1) Scrolling to the end is very slow

2) Finding a keyword which is near the end is very slow too

I'll stick to EditPad Pro for now.

Re: Notepad++ 6.0 Released

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Post by kamweti »

pooriaazimi wrote: post #14
prophetjohn wrote: post #10

Hands down my favorite editor for Windows, but when I'm using it, I still wish I was using gedit or TextMate.

Try Sublime Text 2. It's fantastic (just like TextMate): http://www.sublimetext.com/2 It's free for now. Be sure to check Sublime package Manager. There are hundreds of Sublime extensions, many of which were ported directly from TextMate (and have .tmbundle suffix!): http://wbond.net/sublime_packages/package_control List of packages: http://wbond.net/sublime_packages/community#sort-installs

Can I navigate files and folders by pressing keyboard keys without triggering an edit in the current open file in Sublime Text, np++ explorer plugin seems to do that seamlessly

Re: Notepad++ 6.0 Released

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Post by jussij »

mulation wrote: post #75
Achshar wrote: post #67

everyone seems to be talking about how great notepad++ is. don't get me wrong, i love it too, in fact it is my primary editor. But why isn't anyone talking about the changes that came with the update? There seems to be no changes from UI perspective. They could have just released another small update. One expects major changes with a left-most version number change. Or am i missing something? plus if my view counts,…

Perl style regular expression support is a big thing! I use notepad++ a lot, but the search has always reminded me of vim.

But is such a change worth a major version number increase?
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