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Notepad++ 6.0 Released

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Re: Notepad++ 6.0 Released

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Post by jussij »

meow wrote: post #49
vvnraman wrote: post #6

Notepad++ is one of the fastest and the best editors out there. Products like these show that over a given period of time, people being to notice the subtle differences between the speed of simple things, like the time taken for the context menu to appear, or the drop-down for word completion to appear. This is primarily why my use of IDEs has decreased over time. It just takes a little too long for doing stuff in th…

+1 for the speed. Not many IDEs seem to care for that any more. Especially most java based IDEs. They feel so sluggish even for the most rudimentary of tasks (opening menus, launching, closing, autocomplete etc)

FWIW the Zeus editor has a lot of IDE like features yet it still feals like a fast text editor.

Re: Notepad++ 6.0 Released

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Post by wenbert »

Does it have "smart" word wrapping like Sublime Text 2? I think it is one of the killer features for me. I sometimes need to work with a small screen and need word-wrapping on.

Re: Notepad++ 6.0 Released

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Post by antihero »

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?

Sublime Text 2, it's cross platform, beautiful, and has wicked shortcuts.

Re: Notepad++ 6.0 Released

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Post by olsonea »

aith wrote: post #8
vvnraman wrote: post #6

Notepad++ is one of the fastest and the best editors out there. Products like these show that over a given period of time, people being to notice the subtle differences between the speed of simple things, like the time taken for the context menu to appear, or the drop-down for word completion to appear. This is primarily why my use of IDEs has decreased over time. It just takes a little too long for doing stuff in th…

I love Notepad++ but there must be 1000s of awesome features like this that I'm still not aware of. Thanks for the tip.

The Compare plugin is one such feature. It highlights the deltas between two files.

edit: forgive me if you're already aware of it.

Re: Notepad++ 6.0 Released

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Post by Joeri »

meow wrote: post #49
vvnraman wrote: post #6

Notepad++ is one of the fastest and the best editors out there. Products like these show that over a given period of time, people being to notice the subtle differences between the speed of simple things, like the time taken for the context menu to appear, or the drop-down for word completion to appear. This is primarily why my use of IDEs has decreased over time. It just takes a little too long for doing stuff in th…

+1 for the speed. Not many IDEs seem to care for that any more. Especially most java based IDEs. They feel so sluggish even for the most rudimentary of tasks (opening menus, launching, closing, autocomplete etc)

I switched from zend studio to phpstorm almost entirely due to speed, with product quality being the other part of what drove me. Fundamentally, an ide is still a code editor, and it has to do that at least as well as notepad++ or i will not use it.

Re: Notepad++ 6.0 Released

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Post by demetris »

wenbert wrote: post #83

Does it have "smart" word wrapping like Sublime Text 2? I think it is one of the killer features for me. I sometimes need to work with a small screen and need word-wrapping on.

If by smart wrapping you mean indented wrapping, yes, it does. Set you preferred wrap mode to Indent in Settins, Preferences, Editing, and then toggle Word Wrap from the View menu.

SciTE, with which Notepad++ shares the scintilla editing component, has quite a few settings for wrapping:

http://www.scintilla.org/SciTEDoc.html

(Search for “wrap” in the page.)

I haven’t looked into how many of those are supported in Notepad++, as I don’t use word wrap myself.

Re: Notepad++ 6.0 Released

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Post by Joeri »

merijnv wrote: post #74
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 mem…

Vim and emacs are not for everyone. This may come across as sacrilege to some, but I personally don't like keyboard-driven interfaces. I want a mouse-based ui, with shortcuts for the stuff i do often enough. I want to move textblocks via drag and drop. I want to trigger a refactor command by navigating a menu with the mouse. And fundamentally, it's because my memory for remembering keyboard commands isn't good enough. A mouse-driven ui lets me focus on the code, instead of "what was that sequence of keys again?"

Re: Notepad++ 6.0 Released

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Post by kahawe »

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?

TextMate gets a lot of love and supports regex: http://macromates.com/
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