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Windows 8.1 built-in search kind of makes this redundant.
no way windows search will ever replace Everything. Windows search is slow and it will not find whatever document you want 90% of the time.
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If you're missing something, perhaps it is the use of literary license. The article is written for an audience not as a therapeutic journal. Sure regular expressions can be learned as quickly as one can type del *.* but a few hours of study isn't going to make much of their syntax stick two weeks later, and two weeks between uses is a lot more frequent than most computer users use them. Everyone ain't a programmer.
> Sure regular expressions can be learned as quickly as one can type del *.* That is not a regex, it's a glob/wildcard pattern.
Though the point about Regex's being distinct from wildcards just reinforces the idea that regex's are not an obvious concept.
Clover: Chrome-like tabs for your file explorer. No more having dozens of file windows up. Just one. http://ejie.me
I agree having Paint.NET on this list, it is pretty good. I used paint shop pro 6 (yes, the one made in 1999) and switched to Paint.NET last year. It has really expanded my capabilities with regard to art for game development. To get the most out of Paint.NET check out their plugins ( http://forums.getpaint.net/index.php?/forum/7-plugins-publis... ). It seems like there is a plugin for anything you can think of.
As I currently dont have it installed I thought I would do so having been reminded by this. Highlighted paint.net and right clicked. Of course chrome wanted to go to paint.net, rather than search for it. Far enough, but absent mindedly I clicked in "go to", and my AV software went mental. The site paint.net seems to be highly dodgy.
So, yes, great bit of software, people should use and support it. Just be careful about where you go to get it. As should be obvious by this thread people need http://www.getpaint.net/
For python development, I'd also add Python(x,y) and/or Anaconda distributions for windows. They're binary installers that give you cpython interpreters + the kitchen sink when it comes to third party libraries and development tools. Also, I have to disagree with the author about recommending µTorrent. It's become more and more adware ridden with each new update. Deluge is pretty good though.
You can't forget Python tools for Visual Studio http://pytools.codeplex.com/ !
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Even if it's a problem you'd have, you really have a luxury problem if having to press enter when writing comments is the thngs you worry about when delivering code.
That's very dismissive of a very real problem. When you add friction to comments, people either a) Don't write them in the first place. b) Don't keep them up to date (as to3m mentioned, it is utterly ridiculous when you need to update a comment and then need to reflow every following sentence. Many developers will simply not do it). Additionally another counterpoint seems to be "my comments are short anyways", which…
Before I used Comment Reflower, I used one of the example VBA macros that comes with Visual Studio. It was rather slow, and somewhat buggy (you're much, much better of with Comment Reflower) but it would - usually - word wrap your comments without making too much of a mess. But I noticed my comments improving in quality pretty much the moment I started using it, because finally I could say as much as needed to be said without it being a bother to keep things nicely formatted, or having to even think about the effort of keeping it up to date later.
I don't know why people have such a blind spot in this regard, but Visual Studio's non-support for word-wrapping comments is obviously shameful. It's utterly ridiculous that you have to press Return while writing comments, and then more ridiculous yet that you have to go back and re-wrap them by hand when they change! - and the end result of course is that people usually don't bother, with the wrapping becoming stead…
To be honest it's not a problem I have, I like to keep my comments short and punchy. If I'm writing war and peace, it will only ever be for the class comment at the top, for some reason I manually do my own line breaks then as I feel it can be used to break up thought and provide emphasis. However, I'm also a GhostDoc fan: http://submain.com/products/ghostdoc.aspx So I appreciate some people consider me to be inheren…
Manual word wrapping reminds me of the days before copy and paste and undo, which (due to my age) thankfully didn't last all that long for me. I personally do not want ever to go back to that time, though I suppose for some the idea might seem attractively quaint ;)
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no way windows search will ever replace Everything. Windows search is slow and it will not find whatever document you want 90% of the time.
Well, it's very-very fast in 8.1. I don't know why it does not find the document you want - it works quite well for me, YMMV obviously.
It is instant file name search. I guess recent Windows could have improved file name searching, but it has classically been pretty bad.