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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 lukan »

j_maffe wrote: post #226
lukan wrote: post #157

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That is true, but it takes more than 1 second to find out about it.

I think the users a software like NP++ is aimed for are willing to spend more than 1 second to find out about this option. It appears that you're not one of those users ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Yeah, and it also appears that the things how they appear to you, might be wrong. I know about that option as I use npp since well over a decade. But I can still say the general interface is bad and I only use npp via key shortcuts. And if there are other options that provide a clearer initial experience, I can see why newcomers choose those instead.

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Post by funnybeam »

j_maffe wrote: post #225
funnybeam wrote: post #103

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“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…

Yeah but vertical toolbars are a thing. I love the vertical tabs option in Edge.

True,me too. But now that copilot keeps popping up on the other side, that’s starting to feel cramped too.

I used to put the task bar vertically down the side of the monitor as well for the same reason but Microsoft won’t let me do that anymore.

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Post by treflop »

edflsafoiewq wrote: post #258
innocenat wrote: post #249

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Personally while there are some task that's easier with multiple cursors, I have personally yet to find any use case where regexp replace in selections doesn't work as well.

There's a reason people use visual editors and not ed.

Wouldn’t remotely compare regex to ed.

I also haven’t found a use for multiple cursors.

Writing a regex is quick and easy.

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Post by lenkite »

rezonant wrote: post #182
jmole wrote: post #105

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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…

I guess with rectangular selection and macros, VIM folks don't find much use for multiple cursors.

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Post by CraigJPerry »

SlackingOff123 wrote: post #100
CraigJPerry wrote: post #29

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The new Jetbrains ui is hard to like. It’s form over function. The old ui (thankfully still available). Having to hover over a hamburger button just to cause it to draw the menu bar options then slide the mouse across to what you want is annoying. The new commit window alt+0 is better, the old modal always felt tacked on when everything else is a docked panel.

FYI, it's possible to make the menu bar always visible in settings.

Aha, I’ve just turned this on, I’m going to give new ui a whirl again.

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Post by noisy_boy »

abgiva wrote: post #192
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…

Try CudaText.

Its a pain to install due to dependencies on libqt5pas1 (which doesn't work with the version provided on Ubuntu 22.04). I was able to install via snap but it takes way too long to start up (even vscode starts faster).

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

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Post by CraigJPerry »

nine_k wrote: post #36
CraigJPerry wrote: post #29

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The new Jetbrains ui is hard to like. It’s form over function. The old ui (thankfully still available). Having to hover over a hamburger button just to cause it to draw the menu bar options then slide the mouse across to what you want is annoying. The new commit window alt+0 is better, the old modal always felt tacked on when everything else is a docked panel.

With time, you start using the menu very rarely, because keyboard shortcuts are so much faster. No menu bar means more screen space when working on a laptop. I usually switch off the menu bar in Emacs, and I don't even know if it can be turned on in Vim.

Ahh I’d disagree with that, I’ve been solely IntelliJ since around 2011/2012[1] and all the alt+N tool windows, the ctrl+shift+a (besides being the original feature, it’s faster than shift+shift and I never have confusion about whether I’m looking for an action or a file or … that shift+shift view just never made sense to me). Basically all the core shortcuts are memory muscle at this point but the menu is useful for browsing lesser used features. Ctrl+shift+a is slow enough at redrawing that you don’t want to be using it to search / try to remember the name of a feature.

[1] well except for a brief 2 year VSCode spell but i came back a year or so ago and have restored my all products subscription

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