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[–] Nativeridge@aussie.zone 54 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Notepad++ is awesome! kudos to the developer, one of those must have replacements on windows πŸ˜‰πŸ‘

[–] fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.world 14 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Multi-edit is huge. It's literally THE reason why I use sublime text from time to time.

I frequently copy text from NP++ to sublime. do a multi edit, then copy it back over multiple times a day.

[–] Elderos@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Genuine question, why use both Sublime and NP++?

[–] veroxii@aussie.zone 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] Elderos@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Why bother with NP++ if you already own sublime, which is arguably equivalent or better, is my question. I use Sublime and I am wondering what feature could be missing to justify still having NP++ installed.

I don’t own sublime.

But even if I did I prefer it over sublime most of the time. Hence copying stuff into it, multi editing, then copying it back over.

From just the little things like NP++ actually supporting windows 11s right click menu, to liking notepads find and replace options better. To stupid things like I think sublime is ugly as hell. Which really says something with how basic NP++ looks.

[–] elbarto777@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Can you use Sublime in evaluation mode?

Yes and there’s virtually no limitations. Every other time you’d hit save you’d get a β€œplease buy me” message, but I think even that’s gone now in later versions of sublime.

[–] ChaoticEntropy@feddit.uk 33 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I have 200 unsaved notes just waiting in the memory guillotine for when something accidentally wipes them. I salute you, Notepad++.

[–] magikmw@lemm.ee 12 points 2 years ago (2 children)

It's so bad but so good. It's like a poweruser variation of keeping important stuff in the recycle bin.

[–] ChaoticEntropy@feddit.uk 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

White knuckle, tightrope note taking. I just do it for the rush.

[–] magikmw@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago

If you can't lose all your work in a freak data corruption incident are you even working?

[–] Kelly@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

My physical notepads aren't much better, every page is a new context, and despite my best efforts they don't seem to be in chronological order.

Todays notes are on top but everything older is "somewhere".

[–] clb92@feddit.dk 5 points 2 years ago

I've restored my N++ session of unsaved notes from backup more than once.

[–] krash@lemmy.ml 24 points 2 years ago

NPP is indispensable, it is the Windows killer-app.

Congrats on the release!

[–] onlooker@lemmy.ml 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Congratulations to everyone involved! I don't use Windows anymore, but when I did, NPP was one of the first things to get installed. Super useful.

[–] abuttifulpigeon@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Same. I wonder if they'll create a Linux port at some point (GTK themes?), because there just isn't anything quite like it.

[–] schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 2 years ago

Look up notepadqq, these guys are doing a Qt port. But you can also use Kate or VSCodium, these are pretty similar if not better.

[–] grandel@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I've switched from NPP years ago. Can somebody please explain why it's so popular?

[–] mp3@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It's snappier and more private than VSCode at the very least.

[–] AzzyDev@beehaw.org 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

idk why people don’t just use codium instead

[–] IrritableOcelot@beehaw.org 2 points 2 years ago

Because of the snappiness -- codium is no faster than code. For me, NPP is used for making single-word changes to a bunch of files in a row--like vim, but a GUI.

[–] tiita@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

It's

Free Updated very regularly It has awesome plugins Themes Fantastic search / replace capabilities Support the formatting of a lot of languages Very light weight Keeps open all those files forever and ever

It's just very good..

Think of it as the vlc of txt files

[–] tiita@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago

Long live notepad++, πŸŽ‰πŸŽ‰πŸŽ‰

[–] SeedyOne@lemm.ee 7 points 2 years ago

Still the best, can't believe it's been 20 years.

[–] numbermess@beehaw.org 5 points 2 years ago

I used Crimson Editor before I found Notepad++ and I can't believe it's been that long. Cheers to 20 years!