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Thoughts on Notepad++? (programming.dev)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year 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.

[–] Alk 3 points 1 year ago

I don't code, but n++ is my go to for all text files because for my job I open A LOT of log files. Sometimes with tens of thousands of lines. I don't need an IDE but I do need a very powerful text editor.