It is kinda interesting that the only software program I miss when on a non-Windows machine is an open source (and GPL of all) replacement for built-in Notepad, developed by an independent engineer.
Notepad++ is 21 years old
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#212I 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…
Except for sbcl/stklos (Common Lisp/Scheme), my setup it's like that. Make, ccache + cc/c++, vi, and some graphical diff tool as it's better than plain diff(1). entr(1) to watch file changes on a directory and run make at every file saving.
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#213I 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.
That's so cool to know! Is there anywhere one can go to read more interesting stats you've collected?
I just prepared some data https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1C73B9XI14rLxYD_4kedG...
we are migrating to Clickhouse so it will be easier to get some interesting stats soon, then from MySQL ;)
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#214Earlier quoted context omitted.
That must be some setting for you. It doesn't prompt to save on any of my several Windows machines, and I don't recall configuring that anywhere.
for me it only happens if I run in multiple instance mode where you can have multiple notepad++s open
I meant Windows Notepad on Win11 is doing this annoying thing, not Notepad++.
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#215Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
I was like you until last year. I did all my development from Emacs on WSL1, writing mostly Windows-specific code (DCOM). I maintained a set of brittle hacks to allow me to drive Windows side CMake and MSBuild straight from Emacs, and then run LSP on compile commands from Clang tricked into thinking it's cross-compiling. It held up surprisingly well. Eventually, I installed a WSL2 distro so I could run Docker, then I…
WSL1 reminds me of coLinux of old times.
Re: Notepad++ is 21 years old
#216I 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.
Back when I had to develop on windows I used Far file manager.
It was amazing. I've used midnight commander on Linux, but it isn't close to Far IMO.
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#217Earlier quoted context omitted.
I was like you until last year. I did all my development from Emacs on WSL1, writing mostly Windows-specific code (DCOM). I maintained a set of brittle hacks to allow me to drive Windows side CMake and MSBuild straight from Emacs, and then run LSP on compile commands from Clang tricked into thinking it's cross-compiling. It held up surprisingly well. Eventually, I installed a WSL2 distro so I could run Docker, then I…
WSL1 reminds me of coLinux of old times. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooperative_Linux
That's more comparable to WSL2 than WSL1.
WSL1 is a subsystem on the NT kernel, allowing Linux binaries to run natively on Windows itself (not a virtual machine). It's the spiritual successor to Interix, that showed up in NT 4.0 and was removed in Windows 8.
The flip side is Wine, allowing Windows binaries to run natively on Linux.
Re: Notepad++ is 21 years old
#218I moved to Notepad++ after Brief mainly because of proper column select. This is just so handy when you need it.
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#220One of my favourite features in n++ is to enable "show all characters". Discovered a lot of weird end-of-line and bom issues like that