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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 marcosdumay »

dgfitz wrote: post #124
marcosdumay wrote: post #120

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I sincerely think Linux is “too big to fail” at this point. Will it morph and evolve into a charmander? Probably, but the evolution will be fluid.

It will keep evolving until it's faced with a situation where it just can't move on the correct direction. Probably because of some social reason, not a technical one.

It's hard to imagine this happening to Linux in particular because it's ridiculously flexible. But things always change.

Re: Notepad++ is 21 years old

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Post by TeMPOraL »

QuantumSeed wrote: post #33
mrmetanoia wrote: post #11

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Me too! It's my go-to large text file manipulator. It's also what I keep open all the time to paste things into since it's so easy to open a new tab and it keeps temp files of things i haven't saved until i've closed them and told it I don't want them saved, so it opens up with a decent history of crap I've been using until I'm ready to clear it.

For Windows 11 users, the latest Notepad.exe can also pick up where you left off the last time the app was closed.

Except when you try to close it, it asks whether or not you want to save the unsaved tab, with a modal, one per every unsaved tab. It kind of defeats the purpose of this feature.

Re: Notepad++ is 21 years old

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Post by ale42 »

KronisLV wrote: post #4

I 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…

Same here but I had the opposite impression: VS was so laggy it was unusable. Maybe it was trying to analyze something in the file? Not sure. NPP opened the file without issued and I could actually work with it.

Re: Notepad++ is 21 years old

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Post by i80and »

underdeserver wrote: post #126
8n4vidtmkvmk wrote: post #92

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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…

Remember Cygwin?

I remember Steve Yeggie selling me on it as a better Unix than Unix, then getting bogged down in cryptic inexplicable failure modes

Really cool technology really early, but I can't say I'm nostalgic!

Re: Notepad++ is 21 years old

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Post by alliao »

krudnicki wrote: post #101

I am the owner of TimeCamp app that can track usage of desktop apps. 75% of office workers that use Google Chrome use Notepad++ on Windows.

feels like forbidden knowledge... I guess any app devs know things like these if their software's used widely enough like chrome/steam and your various motherboard software suites and crapware installed by laptop makers

Re: Notepad++ is 21 years old

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Post by SpartanJ »

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'm working on a multi-platform code editor similar to notepad++ and some new editors like Zed, called ecode, that tries to be a fresh take on code editors using some modern tools and technologies like LSPs. I started working on it after using Geany (which was the closest alternative to notepad++ in Linux) for many years but finding Geany lacking some essential features for my needs. ecode is developed with speed in mind and has a very fast startup time. It might be a good fit for your search.

[1] https://github.com/SpartanJ/ecode/

Re: Notepad++ is 21 years old

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Post by grujicd »

nullhole wrote: post #129
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…

If you haven't already, you should try Total Commander for file navigation. It's similar to Notepad++ in that there's a long list of reasons why it's good at its task, but it's also just a very good example of what desktop Windows software can be like when it's done well.

TotalCommander is the first thing I install on every Windows, and main reason I can't get used to MacOs. Yes, there are some replacements, but nothing that's the same as TC.
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