Custom syntax highlighting is my favorite when I’m doing a large creative writing project, I define rules to highlight stuff - proper nouns in-universe, key elements of the story, words I have a bad habit of overusing, etc - to leave myself little reminders and landmarks sprinkled through the text as I work on it
Notepad++ is 21 years old
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#232I 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.
Lifelong Total Commander user here as well. They're one of those few remaining legacy companies that haven't switched to subscriptions or jacked up prices, and continously release updates at their own pace without any drama.
In fact, I think it's just one guy - Christian Ghisler. Kudos to you, sir.
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#233One of the things I'm most proud of developing is dark mode for notepad++, even though it was a relatively simple contribution.
Thanks for your contribution. I really like it and switched to it immediately when it came out. The initial theme was not quite right but it’s good now.
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#234Notepad++ when I used it the 1st time I couldn't believe a text editor could be better. Fortunately shortly after I stumbled upon sublime. V3 was a bit awkward but end of the day still a text editor.
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#235Notepad++ 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.
I like the small QoL features it has accrued over the years, like renaming new autosaved tabs! It helps me stay organized when I create many unsaved documents to store separate info for a few days.
Any sane text editor won't let you rename a new document until you save it, but it is useful for some use cases.
Re: Notepad++ is 21 years old
#236I 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…
Very similar to my setup, although I alternate between Notepad++ and Visual Studio Code. I do just stick with git-gui for easy chunk/line commit selection.
Synergy and PBP (Picture-by-Picture) with an ultrawide monitor is great! I can split half my screen as Mac and the other as Windows, and the mouse and keyboard just seamlessly jump between the "gap" in the middle of the screen. I switched from a double screen setup (side by side) to an ultrawide and I've been happier than ever.
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#238Congrats to Notepad++, but this article reads like AI spam to me
Very much agreed. There's certain turns of phrase that human beings rarely use but AIs immediately grasp for.
Then again, this reminds me of the saying I've heard, that AIs now are at the dumbest point they will be in our lives. Presumably at some point, it will be difficult for human beings to distinguish it or even have their 'instinct' set off.
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#239As a Mac user, Notepad++ is the only thing I miss from the Windows ecosystem.
What do you happen to use? I find Sublime Text to be the closest alternative.
At the time (and it was a few years ago), I found BBEdit to be rather amazing - or at least equally a product raised with care in its ecosystem over decades of use.
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#240Earlier 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…
Actually, it's a streamlined Hyper-V setup, rather literally.