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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 tentacleuno »

publius_0xf3 wrote: post #102
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.

I'm very glad others have come to expect this feature, too; I assumed it was another of my weird, niche workflows :-)

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

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Post by input_sh »

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?

If you're using the same variable name across the file, but want to change only a couple of references to something else, it fills that "I need to do this more than once, but in a bit of an easier to reach, fancier way than with find and replace" niche.

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

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Post by StuffMaster »

j1elo wrote: post #79
porphyra wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Tiny buttons toolbars were the norm for decades in, say, Windows Explorer and Microsoft Word, before Microsoft transitioned to the "Ribbon" style in 2007. Personally I think that people who enjoy those buttons do so for nostalgia reasons, but they are not the worst to use once you remember where each tool is and what each tool's icon looks like.

> Tiny buttons toolbars were the norm for decades (...) before Microsoft transitioned to the "Ribbon" style in 2007. The Ribbon still feels to me like that "new thing" Microsoft did since some version of Office... and you're telling me it was 2007?!! Oh my... A bit before that time I already moved to Open/LibreOffice, and never really used any Windows past 7, so I've missed a whole UI paradigm transition that now mak…

Pull-down menus are so obtrusive! You SHOULD prefer to hunt and hunt and hunt for the button you want. The future is now and it sucks.

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

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Post by sgc »

ivanjermakov wrote: post #21
bregma wrote: post #14

Why would I choose notepad++ over something like vim or emacs? Is there a compelling differentiator?

Notepad++ is literally a better version of notepad.exe. I would not consider using it for anything serious though.

It depends what your "serious" work is. I have used it to edit well over 300 million words of text, reformatting scripts to add tagging etc, large scripts of complex regex to data clean (although nothing I know of beats TextCrawler for that task), even writing code in several languages - though of course a proper ide is more useful for many coding tasks. VS Code for example absolutely chokes on large files. Sublime does an ok job - but not one I can rely on for larger batch jobs. NPP excels, and I can quickly do thousands of changes on thousands of large files quickly. NPP also has many plugins (like Sublime etc), and its utility depends on them as much as the other text editors do.

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

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Post by someone7x »

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 fondly remember SciTE from when I first cut my teeth on desktop automation. I’m glad to see it alive and kicking.

https://www.autoitscript.com/wiki/SciTE4AutoIt3

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

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Post by jtriangle »

rembicilious wrote: post #89

Npp (Notepad++) is my go to text editor for windows. It has been actively maintained for 20 years. It’s lightweight with a super responsive UI. I love the text search/replace interface. I keep a copy of the portable version on my keychain thumb drive because I never know when a friend or family member will have me muck around with their pc. Npp Version 7 runs splendidly on wine. I prefer it over the linux desktop tex…

Notepadqq on linux is basically 1:1 with notepad++

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

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Post by jraph »

sixthDot wrote: post #67
gen3 wrote: post #5

Awesome. When I moved to linux a few years ago notepad++ was one of the harder apps to find a replacement for. I ended up sticking with Kate Edit: Kate is great, give it a shot!

Have you ever heard of https://cudatext.github.io/ . It's certainly faster than Kate.

Faster than Kate is a feat. Speed is one aspect, I have been using Kate for more than 10 years. What, in your opinion, should make me check out this editor?
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