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?
Love it. Just please improve the update process. It’s incredibly annoying and inconvenient to have to click through multiple dialog boxes, then close and reopen the program just to upgrade and get to work. Make it seamless in the background or upon exit and not startup. It’s especially irritating when I’m opening np++ just to jot something down quickly, it defeats the purpose.
I really enjoy how notepad++ can open 1.8 gigabyte text files or bigger…
It’s good that Windows users are finally able to enjoy 20th century technology.
yeah I often use the bigfile plug in to peak at the headers of giant csvs
Notepad++ is my ride-and-die. I can’t think of a single program over the years that’s been as helpful and reliable. The more other IDEs bloat, the more I just go back to Npp.
When I die, I want to be buried with a flash stick carrying the portable version of Npp.
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.
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.
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
npp rips. I wish there was an org mode plugin for it
