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Thoughts on Notepad++? (programming.dev)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by ButtonMcLemming@programming.dev to c/text_editors@programming.dev

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Notepad++ has become a staple in my coding workflow (as a college student studying IT) for a couple of years before I started trying out VS Code, or Visual Studio Code. Nowadays, while I use VS Code for coding, I mostly just use NPP to edit my text files.

So, for both writing and editing text files as well as coding, what are your thoughts on Notepad++ and how well does it deliver as both a text editor and for writing code?

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[–] Turbo@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I really enjoy how notepad++ can open 1.8 gigabyte text files or bigger...

[–] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 years ago

yeah I often use the bigfile plug in to peak at the headers of giant csvs

[–] milkbuttermilk@programming.dev 2 points 2 years ago

npp rips. I wish there was an org mode plugin for it

[–] ShortBoweledClown@lemmy.one 1 points 2 years ago

Notepad++ is great. I mostly use it at work where my IDE of choice isn't available, but it's really nice for writing queries instead of using the Snowflake UI directly

[–] Floey@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Using a different program for code and text files seems weird to me.

[–] ARk@lemm.ee 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I use npp as an all-around lightweight tool for opening any kind of file with text in it. I don't usually don't want to open a full blown editor when all I need is to look or tweak a few things. Also npp simply persists the files instead of asking me if I want to save the file every time.

That is of course, if I don't already have a code editor open. Either way I tend to prefer editing text that is unrelated to the code outside of the code editor just to keep it clean.

[–] jeremyparker@programming.dev 2 points 2 years ago

Imo prose handles very differently. I use nvim for everything but there are definitely times that I fire up Sublime Text when I want to do long-form writing.

Prose has very different requirements; I don't need the word "this" highlighted, I don't need the word Date capitalized every time I write it.