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Re: Notepad++ is 21 years old

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Post by namrog84 »

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…

I'm not sure if others have it. But notepad++ had a pretty neat way to mark lines from search and do various multiline editing that I've always enjoyed.

I enjoyed it's transient new file tab without needing to specify a file location.

I like its find and findall and count better than other editors.

Re: Notepad++ is 21 years old

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Post by LandR »

sigseg1v wrote: post #59
QuantumSeed wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For Windows 11 users, the latest Notepad.exe can also pick up where you left off the last time the app was closed.

I love it with the exception that one day, when it started to lag (my fault for opening up 400+ unsaved tabs), I realized there is no "Close All and Don't Save Changes" functionality. Clicked the "No" button around 80 times, searched for some registry or appdata hack to see if it could get rid of the rest which didn't work, and then sadly went back to clicking No for the rest. I'll try to avoid that in the future.

Looks like this has changed at some point :)

I just tried this, opened a bunch of tabs and edited the text in them all.

Right click tabs, close all to the right, left or close all but this.

Then it shows a message box asking to save, click No To All.

All tabs closed :)

Re: Notepad++ is 21 years old

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Post by blangk »

matthewsommer wrote: post #66
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.

Why not use symlinks (on Linux, not sure of the equivalent on Windows)?

New-Item -type SymbolicLink

Re: Notepad++ is 21 years old

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Post by mmooss »

pletnes wrote: post #65
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.

It depends on how big 'big' is. Years ago I was working with large CSVs - several hundred MB - and Vim took forever. I found some other text editors that specialized in extra-large files (I wish I remembered the names now), and the one we tried worked like magic.

Re: Notepad++ is 21 years old

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Post by sumtechguy »

sigseg1v wrote: post #59
QuantumSeed wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For Windows 11 users, the latest Notepad.exe can also pick up where you left off the last time the app was closed.

I love it with the exception that one day, when it started to lag (my fault for opening up 400+ unsaved tabs), I realized there is no "Close All and Don't Save Changes" functionality. Clicked the "No" button around 80 times, searched for some registry or appdata hack to see if it could get rid of the rest which didn't work, and then sadly went back to clicking No for the rest. I'll try to avoid that in the future.

It keeps temp files in one of the appdata folders. You could just blow them away and it would just remove them from the tab list. The issue is do you want to keep that stuff or not. Also ctrl-w and n. should work fine too.

Re: Notepad++ is 21 years old

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Post by grugagag »

elashri wrote: post #61
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…

Ive been meaning to try Sublime for a while now. Will try and comment my experience at a future time. Thing is N++ never dissapointed and if Sublime wins my mindshare Id be having some tough decision to make. Also N++ is free and I developed plugins for myself. Maybe Sublime is still better, don’t know for sure.

Re: Notepad++ is 21 years old

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Post by ryangs »

kevinsync wrote: post #40

I 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…

What is your pattern for navigating to a function definition (as an example of a basic IDE operation that doesn't seem supported)? Grep?

Re: Notepad++ is 21 years old

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Post by grugagag »

aanet wrote: post #2

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

Im working in a similar locked down env, and here more recently they lock down downloading N++ or doing updates so I have my workarounds.

Re: Notepad++ is 21 years old

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Post by seabass-labrax »

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…

> One thing I really like about software is that it can theoretically live forever... ...The learning you do goes to waste, when some fickle company pulls the plug in the future.

I think you could say that software lasts forever when it's author wants it to. There is plenty of dead proprietary software that dates from before the era of cloud services; it's dead because, just like the SaaS company that pulls the plug today, nobody thought (or dared) to preserve the source code.

To make sure software really lasts, history shows us that the best thing one can do is to release the code as FOSS :)

Re: Notepad++ is 21 years old

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Post by mmooss »

namrog84 wrote: post #71
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…

I'm not sure if others have it. But notepad++ had a pretty neat way to mark lines from search and do various multiline editing that I've always enjoyed. I enjoyed it's transient new file tab without needing to specify a file location. I like its find and findall and count better than other editors.

> I like its find and findall and count better than other editors.

Do other editors miscount?

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