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NotepadNext – a cross-platform reimplementation of Notepad++

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Re: NotepadNext – a cross-platform reimplementation of Notepad++

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Post by jraph »

aveao wrote: post #62
user3939382 wrote: post #9

Just to provide a diversity of opinion: I've heard basically nothing but positive feedback about Notepad++ over the years. However, I tried it out for about 10 seconds before closing it and never looked back. The, what I call "millions of tiny buttons" interface is ugly and distracting. I've never liked IDEs or other apps with this UI style. I use a JetBrains IDE now that has just as many features but the UI is not c…

Npp is a code editor, and you're comparing it to an IDE. Apples and oranges.

Both are fruits. The comparison applies here I think :-)

Re: NotepadNext – a cross-platform reimplementation of Notepad++

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Post by publius_0xf3 »

tentacleuno wrote: post #26

I very much miss Notepad++ for making quick notes, and then being able to close the window without being asked whether I'd like to save the document. This, and auto-save (so not losing documents if you forget to save) is one of the main reasons I replaced Notepad with ++. Rather quickly, I found that I had to completely remove Notepad so muscle memory would stop guiding me to it. Good times (and sad ones; I lost a lo…

Occasionally, someone will submit their new text editor to Hacker News and the first thing I do is check if it quietly saves sessions upon closure.

It's amazing how many people don't bother implementing this indispensable feature.

Re: NotepadNext – a cross-platform reimplementation of Notepad++

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Post by funnybeam »

gamepsys wrote: post #23
user3939382 wrote: post #9

Just to provide a diversity of opinion: I've heard basically nothing but positive feedback about Notepad++ over the years. However, I tried it out for about 10 seconds before closing it and never looked back. The, what I call "millions of tiny buttons" interface is ugly and distracting. I've never liked IDEs or other apps with this UI style. I use a JetBrains IDE now that has just as many features but the UI is not c…

I greatly miss those tool bars. I think it's ironic that modern UI strives to be less cluttered than ever before while computer monitors are larger than ever before. * They encourage curiosity about previously undiscovered functionality. It improves feature discoverability. * It's way easier to find the correct tool bar icon than trying to hunt for a feature inside the menus. * If some toolbars are highlighted or dis…

“less cluttered than ever before while computer monitors are larger than ever before.”

Less cluttered but with more white space, especially in the vertical direction which is particularly cramped since the change in monitor aspect ratios so the toolbars have less functionality but take up more of the usable screen space.

Progress is great…

Re: NotepadNext – a cross-platform reimplementation of Notepad++

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Post by tombert »

Notepad++, as the name suggests for me, was actually the next editor I learned how to use after Windows Notepad. I saw all this pretty syntax highlighting, and the ability to use tabs, and I decided to use it.

I got pretty good with it, even making custom macros and the like, and as I was learning C and C++ on Windows it was still the text editor I used.

The reason I stopped using it really did just come down to the fact that it didn't work on Linux. I had already been dual-booting Windows by 2011, and when Windows 8 got announced I utterly hated it so much that I decided to just do Linux full-time. While I was aware that Notepad++ worked on Wine, I didn't really want to muck with anything emulator or emulator-adjacent, so I just picked up Emacs and Vim (went back and forth for multiple years until finally settling on Vim).

I will need to look at NotepadNext. NeoVim is great, but sometimes I want a simple, non-IDE, GUI text editor as a place to just dump notes down.

Re: NotepadNext – a cross-platform reimplementation of Notepad++

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Post by jmole »

speps wrote: post #63
qwertox wrote: post #49

Notepad++ (and this one here) are based on Scintilla [0]. It's worth pointing it out because it is a high-quality open source code editor component. SciTE [1] is the "official" demo-editor for Scintilla and was last updated on March 9th 2024. The history reaches back to 1999. [0] https://www.scintilla.org/ [1] https://www.scintilla.org/SciTE.html

I wrote a custom mod more than 15 years ago for SciTE that exposed its plugin API to Ruby and wrote some of my own plugins. It didn't support multiple cursors and I instantly switched to Sublime as soon as I discovered that feature, never looked back.

What are multiple cursors used for?

Re: NotepadNext – a cross-platform reimplementation of Notepad++

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Post by codedokode »

gamepsys wrote: post #23
user3939382 wrote: post #9

Just to provide a diversity of opinion: I've heard basically nothing but positive feedback about Notepad++ over the years. However, I tried it out for about 10 seconds before closing it and never looked back. The, what I call "millions of tiny buttons" interface is ugly and distracting. I've never liked IDEs or other apps with this UI style. I use a JetBrains IDE now that has just as many features but the UI is not c…

I greatly miss those tool bars. I think it's ironic that modern UI strives to be less cluttered than ever before while computer monitors are larger than ever before. * They encourage curiosity about previously undiscovered functionality. It improves feature discoverability. * It's way easier to find the correct tool bar icon than trying to hunt for a feature inside the menus. * If some toolbars are highlighted or dis…

The problem with tool bars is that usually you cannot guess what 80% of the icons mean.

Re: NotepadNext – a cross-platform reimplementation of Notepad++

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Post by publius_0xf3 »

user3939382 wrote: post #9

Just to provide a diversity of opinion: I've heard basically nothing but positive feedback about Notepad++ over the years. However, I tried it out for about 10 seconds before closing it and never looked back. The, what I call "millions of tiny buttons" interface is ugly and distracting. I've never liked IDEs or other apps with this UI style. I use a JetBrains IDE now that has just as many features but the UI is not c…

As a longtime Notepad++ user, I hate those buttons as well. Fortunately, the settings contain the option to hide the menu, the icons, the buttons on the tabs, the status bar, etc. resulting in a very minimalistic experience, which is how I use it.

I recommend giving it another look.

Re: NotepadNext – a cross-platform reimplementation of Notepad++

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Post by walteweiss »

Not really willing to explore after this.

>By default, MacOS enables font smoothing which causes text to appear quite differently from the Windows version. This can be disabled system-wide using the following command:

Does any sane person on a Mac want to have a Windows look, especially when it comes to fonts? Looks crazy to me.

Re: NotepadNext – a cross-platform reimplementation of Notepad++

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Post by jdc0589 »

jmole wrote: post #105
speps wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I wrote a custom mod more than 15 years ago for SciTE that exposed its plugin API to Ruby and wrote some of my own plugins. It didn't support multiple cursors and I instantly switched to Sublime as soon as I discovered that feature, never looked back.

What are multiple cursors used for?

been a while since I used it, but it was handy for templates where you need to enter a name once and have it typed in multiple places in the template (quicker than a find/replace). It was a also handy sometimes to just be able to put your cursor on the name of a variable or bigger text selection, smash cmd+d a handful of times to add another cursor at every other occurrences of it in the file, and then just start typing to modify each of those occurrences.
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