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Notepad++ is 21 years old

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Re: Notepad++ is 21 years old

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Post by jasonfarnon »

wvenable wrote: post #9

I 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.

Based on the products name I think this was the main goal--to replace windows' bundled notepad.exe. For me, notepad.exe had some ridiculous issue, which I can't remember (I think maybe a very low limit on the file size?), that forced me to look for a replacement ca. 2005. The other piece of software from that time I'm still using is sumatrapdf.

Re: Notepad++ is 21 years old

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Post by nuancebydefault »

grugagag wrote: post #42

Notepad++ is my daily driver for taking notes, todos, do pastes and use new tabs as buffers. It’s the most reliable place on my work machine, being always found how you left it off. Notepad++ and WinMerge are my two favorite tools. Integrating Winmerge with Visual Studio 2022 was a breath of fresh air, any compares pop up outside VS in a WinMerge window, could leave multiple versions open, etc. I don’t even want to s…

The fact that it auto saves any new tab that you filled with thoughts, todo's, pieces of logs,... is super handy. When rebooting they just appear as unsaved new tabs, as if you never closed notepad++. Zero keep effort. To toss, you just close the tab and click no.

Re: Notepad++ is 21 years old

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Post by bbayles »

alkh wrote: post #108

Is there anything similar and lightweight that is cross-platform(or at least is available both on Linux and OS X)? I am not a Windows user, so that's a secondary priority for me

I've used Geany for 10+ years on Linux and Mac. Very similar to Notepad++!

Re: Notepad++ is 21 years old

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Post by butz »

alkh wrote: post #108

Is there anything similar and lightweight that is cross-platform(or at least is available both on Linux and OS X)? I am not a Windows user, so that's a secondary priority for me

Check out NotepadNext ( https://github.com/dail8859/NotepadNext ) and Notepadqq ( https://notepadqq.com/s/ ), albeit last one is not maintained anymore. SublimeText is of course the most lightweight alternative, if you don't mind commercial software.

Re: Notepad++ is 21 years old

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Post by SapporoChris »

speedgoose wrote: post #69
ab_io wrote: post #64

As a Mac user, Notepad++ is the only thing I miss from the Windows ecosystem.

It runs on Wine.

It runs with difficulty on Wine. Example: I have localization for Japanese fonts on my Linux system but it wasn't showing up in Notepad++. I love Notepad++, but that was the final straw. I have switched to Geany which is missing many features from Notepad++, but will display the fonts correctly. I'm sure there's a way to get the fonts loaded up through Wine, but I've given up.

Re: Notepad++ is 21 years old

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Post by augustk »

8n4vidtmkvmk wrote: post #92
kevinsync wrote: post #40

I continue to use Notepad++ despite having tried every other editor and IDE under the sun. This, of course, drives every person completely insane when I explain that my "IDE" is: - Notepad++ for editing, pretty much stock, no plugins - command line for git and grep (Console2 or Git Bash) - File Explorer alongside Everything [0] for navigating files - Beyond Compare [1] for visual diff/merge - WinSCP/PuTTY for SFTP/SS…

I think I'm one of the last people using WSL1. I think everyone jumped to WSL2 because 2 is bigger than 1, but they're really different things. WSL1 lets me keep my files on the Windows side, let's my IDE (PHP storm) remain performant with no Linux to Windows file system overhead, but I still get to use all the Linux CLI tools. I still pay some overhead for that, but it's better than doing it the other way around and…

MSYS2 is quite decent. I use it everyday at work where I have to use MS Windows.

https://www.msys2.org/

Re: Notepad++ is 21 years old

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Post by syndicatedjelly »

lyu07282 wrote: post #39
ijustlovemath wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

vim is amazing once you learn a couple verbs, visual block mode, windows, and the nice special subjects, eg % for enclosing parens

Unfortunately then you will eventually be forced to work in environments without it and feel like you just had a brain aneurysm due to how insufferably slow and clunky everything else is. Ignorance is bliss, just look at all those cute commenters here who think notepad++ is the best thing ever. "It even supports regexp!" It makes the editor wars feel so pointless, but Windows users are adorable.

I have never encountered an OS distribution that did not have vi pre-installed

Re: Notepad++ is 21 years old

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Post by dgfitz »

kevinsync wrote: post #40

I continue to use Notepad++ despite having tried every other editor and IDE under the sun. This, of course, drives every person completely insane when I explain that my "IDE" is: - Notepad++ for editing, pretty much stock, no plugins - command line for git and grep (Console2 or Git Bash) - File Explorer alongside Everything [0] for navigating files - Beyond Compare [1] for visual diff/merge - WinSCP/PuTTY for SFTP/SS…

Check out MobaXterm, it has a phenomenal X implementation just built in.

Re: Notepad++ is 21 years old

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Post by marcosdumay »

tmountain wrote: post #106
hyggetrold wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My prediction is that C will still be in active use 100 years from now.

Linux will likely still exist and have a team of people maintaining it, so the odds are pretty good that you’re right.

Those things are immortal right until they suddenly die without a warning.

In 100 years there will probably be somebody maintaining Linux for sentimental reasons. But it probably won't be in practical use.

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