I really enjoy how notepad++ can open 1.8 gigabyte text files or bigger...
yeah I often use the bigfile plug in to peak at the headers of giant csvs
npp rips. I wish there was an org mode plugin for it
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
Using a different program for code and text files seems weird to me.
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.
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.
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