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Notepad++ 6.0 Released

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Re: Notepad++ 6.0 Released

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Post by jtdennis »

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…

Wow, I've been using n++ for years and never realized that feature was there. It'll save me so much time. Thanks!

Re: Notepad++ 6.0 Released

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Post by thewordis »

Someone wrote: post #76
mulation wrote: post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

I was able to do this in the previous version.

Re: Notepad++ 6.0 Released

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Post by pwelch »

Torn wrote: post #68
user2459 wrote: post #20

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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

Text wrangler is particularly nice.

Another vote for Text Wrangler. I use Sublime 2 and Texmate a lot but if someone wants a free solution and not interested in Vim or Emacs then I always recommend Text Wrangler. It's from the same people that make BBedit.

Re: Notepad++ 6.0 Released

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Post by natex »

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?

Geany is very similar to Notepad++ and is available for MacOSX.

http://www.geany.org/Main/About

Re: Notepad++ 6.0 Released

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Post by merijnv »

Joeri wrote: post #88
merijnv wrote: post #74

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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…

Sure, I'm just pointing out that their existence greatly diminishes the motivation to write a good (free) text editor for OSX. There are plenty of nice GUI editors for OSX, but most (all?) seem to be paid editors.

The end result is that you either fork over the money (not entirely unreasonable for a tool you use so often) or learn to work the excellent free editors that exist.

Re: Notepad++ 6.0 Released

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Post by dos1 »

deno wrote: post #39
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?

Kate from KDESC http://kate-editor.org/about-kate/ http://mac.kde.org/

This was the first decent GUI text editor I ever used. Prior to using it I had only ever seen Notepad and pico. I was amazed that you could interact with the terminal right from the app's user interface! To this day I still have a soft spot in my heart for Kate.

Re: Notepad++ 6.0 Released

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Post by jamesgeck0 »

rplnt wrote: post #51
kemo wrote: post #48

The only two things I miss from Windows are Notepad++ and Total Commander (Ultima Prime). Killer combo.

I also miss Winamp (although not that much) and Miranda (IM client). When I'm on Linux I rather don't use any dedicated IM client at all. Just IRC + something web based. As with text editor, I never used Notepad++ too much but at the moment I use Komodo Edit. It seems fine to me and it is cross platform.

Winamp? Bah, Foobar2000 is where it was at. Tiny resource usage, infinitely customizable, and an arcane UI. Switching to anything else feels like that cold, uneasy feeling you get when you run your favorite editor on a machine without your personal config file and try to use one of your custom keybindings.

Re: Notepad++ 6.0 Released

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Post by platz »

jtdennis wrote: post #91
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…

Wow, I've been using n++ for years and never realized that feature was there. It'll save me so much time. Thanks!

I never realized this either. Thanks!
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