I always have Notepad++ on my Windows machines and admit to running it in Wine on my Mac. But my go to plain text editor on my Macs has always been BBEdit. I had assumed this was legit until this new info came out, I can see why the creator is pissed. The vibe coding just makes it worse.
notepad++ is one of my ‘must haves’ on any pc. even with how shitty it looks on linux, it still does everything i expect it to. irfanview is another, there simply isn’t anything native to linux that has its feature set and ease-of-use. i gave up my paint.net and paintshop pro for linux, but i need the other two to work.
What is so special about notepad++ that no other editors have? I have not used it extensively myself (and last time I ever even did was probably 10yr ago), so I don’t know it well enough, I actually can’t remember what made me use it over the stock notepad back when I did use windows but it must have been some feature.
It used to be leagues better than the default on windows, having plugins, hex-view for binary files, actual history instead of one undo, ability to open big files without much trouble, formatting and syntax highlight. At least, those were the reasons I used it, nowadays I still install it and set as default, but don’t use that much. And I moved to Linux anyway
as far as kate goes… i am making the conscious effort to use it over npp. i’ve been using linux since debian was in diapers, but my main ‘work’ pc has always been windows (that fact will be changing soon as i can decide on a desktop and what spin of what will deliver it) and npp has been on it since its inception. so what npp ‘has’ over kate, for me, is 22 years of history together.
It’s just not great in Wine. I ran across someone else’s post just now asking for any other editor that can do comparison editing like it because of that fact. It’s so useful in Windows, but graphically it’s a pain in anything else, and really needs a port. A legit one.
I always have Notepad++ on my Windows machines and admit to running it in Wine on my Mac. But my go to plain text editor on my Macs has always been BBEdit. I had assumed this was legit until this new info came out, I can see why the creator is pissed. The vibe coding just makes it worse.
notepad++ is one of my ‘must haves’ on any pc. even with how shitty it looks on linux, it still does everything i expect it to. irfanview is another, there simply isn’t anything native to linux that has its feature set and ease-of-use. i gave up my paint.net and paintshop pro for linux, but i need the other two to work.
(Serious question not trying to be a dick)
What is so special about notepad++ that no other editors have? I have not used it extensively myself (and last time I ever even did was probably 10yr ago), so I don’t know it well enough, I actually can’t remember what made me use it over the stock notepad back when I did use windows but it must have been some feature.
It used to be leagues better than the default on windows, having plugins, hex-view for binary files, actual history instead of one undo, ability to open big files without much trouble, formatting and syntax highlight. At least, those were the reasons I used it, nowadays I still install it and set as default, but don’t use that much. And I moved to Linux anyway
I’ve head that nodepadqq is similar and quite good https://notepadqq.com/s/
Though, I should note that I’ve just tried it and not used it extensively. I simply stick to Kate or kwrite.
What about Kate?
I like Kate. I use it on Linux and Windows, but I also use Notepad++ on Windows. lol
What does Notepad++ have that Kate doesn’t?
that comment was about irfanview, not npp.
as far as kate goes… i am making the conscious effort to use it over npp. i’ve been using linux since debian was in diapers, but my main ‘work’ pc has always been windows (that fact will be changing soon as i can decide on a desktop and what spin of what will deliver it) and npp has been on it since its inception. so what npp ‘has’ over kate, for me, is 22 years of history together.
It’s just not great in Wine. I ran across someone else’s post just now asking for any other editor that can do comparison editing like it because of that fact. It’s so useful in Windows, but graphically it’s a pain in anything else, and really needs a port. A legit one.