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Re: Notepad++ is 21 years old

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Post by ijustlovemath »

deathanatos wrote: post #10
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…

> 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 thi…

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

Re: Notepad++ is 21 years old

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Post by jftuga »

jimmar wrote: post #6

I 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.

I love using it for macros. Do you happen to know if there is anything similar for either VS Code or PyCharm?

Re: Notepad++ is 21 years old

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Post by VoodooJuJu »

Notepad++ is so based. It's a traditionally well-made native app, fast and lean, with a dense and useful interface, which is a breath of fresh air amidst a sea of Electron & Co. bloat that comprises modern apps.

Also has a nice logo for a FOSS app. Branding is important, even for FOSS, which so many unfortunately fail at. If your software creation is associated with a foot or a rat, then you're doing it wrong.

Re: Notepad++ is 21 years old

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Post by asalahli »

svara wrote: post #14

And yet, this text editor too loads the whole file into memory when you open it. No modern text editor really should do that and support files of essentially arbitrary size by loading at most a few gigabytes around the cursor.

How would you calculate line numbers if you did that?

Re: Notepad++ is 21 years old

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Post by hambandit »

I remember my college roommate, around 2010, using Notepad++. I assumed it was fairly old at that point given how simple and solid it looked. Way to go, Notepad++ for building something that's standing the test of time!

Re: Notepad++ is 21 years old

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Post by sebazzz »

joshdavham wrote: post #25

Has anyone built a co-pilot-like plugin for Notepad++ yet? Before reading this post, I wasn't even aware that Notepad++ had plugins.

Some of my favorite plugins:

- Hex Editor Plus: Gets disabled every update due to “instability” but has never caused issues for me.

- XML Tools: Schema validation and XML formatting

- JSON tools

- (Text) Compare

Re: Notepad++ is 21 years old

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Post by timeon »

perryizgr8 wrote: post #12

Notepad++ is the single biggest reason I prefer a windows pc over a macbook. It's such a no nonsense app with exactly the right mix of features and usability. One of these days I'll ditch vs code in favour of np++ for all my editing needs.

It is not Notepad++ but you can still run Sublime Text or BBEdit and others (like Zed) on Macos. No need for VS Code.

There is also PSPad on Windows which is similar to Notepad++.

Re: Notepad++ is 21 years old

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Post by frutiger »

deathanatos wrote: post #10
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…

> 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 thi…

Just checked, Dev-C++ seems to still be going: https://www.bloodshed.net.

Re: Notepad++ is 21 years old

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Post by Medox »

submeta wrote: post #15

We have it on our work laptops. It’s decent. But it does not even have markdown editing out of the box. You need to install a plugin. I cannot do that without proper rights. Other than that it’s pretty good. Like BBEdit on a Mac. Edit: I rather miss markdown rendering, not primarily editing. Should have been more specific.

You could try the portable version [1]. Not so easy to update afterwards, of course, and plugin installations and updates might need some extra steps [2] but having a zipped backup / ready-to-go package, with everything configured as desired, can come in handy.

[1] https://www.softpedia.com/get/PORTABLE-SOFTWARE/Office/Suite...

[2] https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/86702

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