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Cool! Notepad++ was one of the apps that I missed the most when I switched to Linux. Besides games, it was the number one reason that I kept rebooting into another OS. After a while, I learned emacs, then vim, and the rest is history. Today, I would probably have switched to Codium. As long as we agree not to use Sublime Text anymore.
I transitioned recently to Mac on new job and I was surprised to find the most painful thing was not havig Notepad++ and was super amazed I did not find comparable software on Mac.
** it's sort of free, the trial period is unlimited. It just gives "activate me" popups every dozen file saves or something.
Cool! Notepad++ was one of the apps that I missed the most when I switched to Linux. Besides games, it was the number one reason that I kept rebooting into another OS. After a while, I learned emacs, then vim, and the rest is history. Today, I would probably have switched to Codium. As long as we agree not to use Sublime Text anymore.
https://liquidninja.com/metapad/
Development on it has stopped, IIRC, but it is still available for download.
I had used many other text editors earlier, such as TextPad, NPP, SciTE, PFE,etc., over the years .
Finally! Every you are so I go online and look up if someone did it, and finally I won't have use vscode
Why would I choose notepad++ over something like vim or emacs? Is there a compelling differentiator?
For a considerable time in my professional life I was forced to use Windows. I would still have access to Linux VMs, in which I spent most of my time, using vim as the editor but whenever I wanted to take quick notes, sanitize text, stash away some info I need in work etc., I'd just use the notepad on Windows.
Then I found Notepad++. The UX is just so great (though I never figured out how to delete all the line ending spaces and it's sometimes nagging me).
So I love both Vim and Notepad++, different use cases. Different reasons.
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Using VS Code: select whatever you want to match, then Ctrl+Shift+L
So it has to be two thousand identical strings? Then I don’t understand the benefit over search & replace.
[
"foo bar/2322",
"foo baz/4223",
"foo blah/2232",
...
]
[
"bar 2322: foo",
"baz 4223: foo",
"blah 2232: foo",
...
]
You get the idea. It sounds complex, but these are all just comprised of the same fundamental editing patterns-- all of the cursors act as if you had just that one cursor when you press the keys. You have to play with multicursors to really appreciate their power.
Most of the time, someone who is well versed with multicursors and their editor's cursor shortcuts (arrow keys, page up/down, shift/ctrl arrow keys, etc) will be able to complete these sort of textual manipulations much faster than using find/replace.
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Using VS Code: select whatever you want to match, then Ctrl+Shift+L
So it has to be two thousand identical strings? Then I don’t understand the benefit over search & replace.
The benefit of it is that you're left with a cursor in each location, and you can then do absolutely anything that you'd normally do with a single cursor in every place at once. This includes things like copy/paste, which will maintain a separate buffer in each selection. This also includes things that're actually tough to do with normal find/replace -- I could select the bit after a search result and switch it to title-case, for instance.
You can do most things you'd use it for with find/replace. But sometimes it's easier to watch it happen as you type, rather than construct a fairly complex regex with groups and suchlike.
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What are multiple cursors used for?
Any time you need to make the same edits in multiple places. I use it to mass edit array items for example by using the highlight / add cursor to identical text feature in VS Code (Ctrl+D). I even use it to copy data out of the browser and mass edit it into data structures-- often there will be some pattern to the pasted data even if it's garbage, so being able to quickly set up multicursors around the patterns in th…
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I hate cluttered flat surfaces as much as the next guy, but I don't put my toaster away when I'm not using it. It's stays right on the counter because it's convenient for it to be there.
> I don't put my toaster away when I'm not using it I actually do lol