• fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.world
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      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.

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            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.

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              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.

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

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

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

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

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        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”.

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

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

    Congrats on the release!

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    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.

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

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        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.

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

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      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

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          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.

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