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There is still no real equivalent on Linux. Kate seems nice but its session management isn't ideal. Honestly I want to take Scintilla or whatever and just add in session support, syntax highlighting and spellchecking, and then I'll have my perfect editor.
Scite has 2/3 of that anyway. There's some support for running a spell checker, but I'm not really familiar with how smooth or not it can be.
There is still no real equivalent on Linux. Kate seems nice but its session management isn't ideal. Honestly I want to take Scintilla or whatever and just add in session support, syntax highlighting and spellchecking, and then I'll have my perfect editor.
Textadept (Lighter but niftier) https://orbitalquark.github.io/textadept/
If anyone else is so inclined, I'll save you the search: https://notepad-plus-plus.org/donate/
(unaffiliated with the author, admire old-fashioned people who don't switch from free to paid)
I say it as a Mac user. It is the one thing I miss after switching away from Windows.
I 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. <3 <3
My IT gave us right to run a few things as admin. Among them, n++. And guess what, it has a "Run" menu item so you can launch any child process. Perfect.
Except that windoze had that bug allowing to run the 'at' command to spawn some shell with system rights. From there, the sky was the limit.
I haven't used Notepad++ since they were exposed for having a CIA backdoor, which they "fixed" after it came to light. https://notepad-plus-plus.org/news/v733-fix-cia-hacking-npp-...
It is not Notepad++ fault. Essentially, the CIA made a modified version of a DLL included with Notepad++ that contains a backdoor, but it is not in the official version of Notepad++ and you can't get it by normal means. The fix is just an improved signature check, so that Notepad++ detects if that DLL has been tempered with, by the CIA or anyone else, or by a virus. But as Don Ho himself said, it is a rather weak pro…
His opinions are pretty much just ethical stances, so I have no issues.
Quick editing for everything with Notepad++ and Plugins.
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I can't live without ripgrep, it's so much faster than grep it's not even funny, especially if working with very large code bases with 100,000+ files
Why is that? Does it build an index so later searches are fast?
Plus it's written in rust and as we know, it's blazingly fast.
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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?