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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 elashri »

grugagag wrote: post #42

Notepad++ 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…

I use Sublime Text for that. I usually use it to paste something that I want to run but modify it (i.e docker-compose.yml) and I use it to write notes during my work and store in its buffers my session thinking. When I'm done or want to leave for a long time (I move these to obsidian). Also for quick edits I like being able to use build-in terminal command `subl` (i.e adding something to ~/.bashrc ). It is available for Windows, Mac and Linux. It is the fastest program to open on all machines I tried before. I don't have a license but I think I should get one (they are generous about that and I silence myself by saying I'm poor academic researcher).

Re: Notepad++ is 21 years old

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Post by g8oz »

Still haven't found another editor that lets you define a project with files from all over the filesystem rather than just from a folder. And no VS Code's multi-root projects do not cut it.

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Post by hyggetrold »

squidgedcricket wrote: post #56
interroboink wrote: post #52

One thing I really like about software is that it can theoretically live forever. I know bit rot is real, but with some maintenance, and even a quite small community, it can keep getting revitalized basically forever.[1] The field is generally still young, so I look forward to good solid software just getting older and older and still working well. Makes it worth learning and internalizing. C is in its 50s, and doesn…

I love being a C developer. I'll still be using it when I retire, though hopefully mixed with Rust instead of C++.

My prediction is that C will still be in active use 100 years from now.

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Post by pletnes »

mmooss wrote: post #58

To help many here understand Notepad++, would someone introduce a curious Vim user to Notepad++? Please don't make it into what is better or worse, but what capabilities does each have that the other lacks (not an exhaustive list, of course), what do they both have but implement differently, what uses are in Notepad++'s wheelhouse, etc? I've heard of it for years, of course, but I don't really know it beyond 'GUI adv…

If you don’t know vim, notepad++ is fast on big files and has syntax highlighting for many languages. But vim does both better.

Notepad++ is more windows in style with clipboard etc than base vim is.

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Post by kapep »

g8oz wrote: post #62

Still haven't found another editor that lets you define a project with files from all over the filesystem rather than just from a folder. And no VS Code's multi-root projects do not cut it.

Not exactly comparable since it's an IDE, but Eclipse had the concept of "linked resources" (files or folder that are part of the project but stored somewhere else on the file system) since at least twenty years.
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