Notepad++ is 21 years old
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Notepad++ is 21 years old
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Re: Notepad++ is 21 years old
#2I LOVE Notepad++ !!
It has served me well in those terrible times when you get a new PC at work (usually Windows) but it is so locked down by Dept of IT that one cannot load anything useful... except a few things like browser... or Notepad++
It has saved my a@@ multiple times in one-or-two large consulting companies pretending to be technically advanced.
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Re: Notepad++ is 21 years old
#3It is a great piece of software. I use it often.
Re: Notepad++ is 21 years old
#4I recently looked at some log files (nothing too crazy, somewhere between 20 - 50 MB of text data) and much to my surprise the recent versions of Visual Studio Code seemed to be smoother than Notepad++.
That said, it's a nice toolbox of common text operations, like sorting lines, removing duplicates, converting case and whitespace symbols and so on. I still use it daily for similar tasks, or just some TODO files, config edits and such.
I did look for something a bit more cross platform to replace it with and CudaText caught my attention (https://cudatext.github.io/) but nothing convincing enough to use something else on my Windows computer, or switch away from Visual Studio Code or Fleet on my Linux/Mac computers.
Re: Notepad++ is 21 years old
#5Notepad++ was my first editor of my own choice. In the end, not something I wanted to keep around, but It's certainly something I would recommend to people who are just getting started in IT.
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#6I love Notepad++. My top 2 favorite features are macro recording and its search/replace (with options for normal, extended, and regex). It's fantastic for quickly cleaning up data.
Re: Notepad++ is 21 years old
#7I can finally take it out for drinks as a thank you.
Re: Notepad++ is 21 years old
#8And now I'll go cry in a corner, damn I'm getting old.
Re: Notepad++ is 21 years old
#9I admit I don't use Notepad++ to actually write anything -- I use it view large files, do complex search & replace, regex, reformat files, data manipulation, etc.
I probably use it a couple of times a week but never to write. I don't even consider it in competition with tools like VS Code, etc.
Re: Notepad++ is 21 years old
#10I recently looked at some log files (nothing too crazy, somewhere between 20 - 50 MB of text data) and much to my surprise the recent versions of Visual Studio Code seemed to be smoother than Notepad++. That said, it's a nice toolbox of common text operations, like sorting lines, removing duplicates, converting case and whitespace symbols and so on. I still use it daily for similar tasks, or just some TODO files, con…
> I did look for something a bit more cross platform to replace it
vim. ;) While yes, it has quite a learning curve, the payout IMO is ultimately worth it.
But Notepad++ will always have a place in my heart; it was what I used for a long time back when I was also still using Windows, and it's a solid editor, and leagues better than NOTEPAD.EXE. Especially 21 years ago, the landscape was much different. "DevC++" I think was the other editor I had that was competing with it.