Comment on After 40 years of being free Microsoft has added a paywall to Notepad

Geodad@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• IronSightOS@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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  • BlackXanthus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Vi

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    • darreninthenet@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Clay tablets

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  • amon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    GNU Emacs is the same everywhere you go (if you don’t mind the TUI)

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• MaxHardwood@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  VSCode is better than np++ in every way

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  • IHawkMike@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I heavily use both and this is objectively untrue.

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  • zeropublix@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Those are 2 different t use case pieces of software

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  • ExFed@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Clearly this is a controversial statement. I’m team “use what’s available and preference tools that get the job done quickly.”

    I work in several different languages. VSCode has TreeSitter and a bevy slick plug-ins. NP++ does not. I can use VSCode on both Windows and Linux. I will hands down pick VSCode over NP++ every time.

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    • kava@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      NP++ was good 20 years ago and it’s been coasting on that good will ever since

      It’s OK for a text editor (compared to something totally basic like notepad) but other text editors have caught up in every single category

      like you said, VS Code is now the default go to code editor for a lot of people. if you don’t use VS Code, you use vim.

      for non-coding uses, I don’t see the functional difference between NP++ or something basic like Gnome’s text editor

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      • ExFed@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Completely agreed. At one point, maybe 12 years ago, I remember trying to learn NP++'s macro system. It was better than whatever we had at the time, but I’m glad I didn’t spend more time than I had to. Just a couple months ago, a coworker was raving about how great NP++ macros are … to do a task handily solved by some light regular expressions and/or column edit mode. Both REs and CEM are far more ubiquitous concepts than some bespoke, domain-specific language for defining repetitive tasks.

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  • MangoCats@feddit.it ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Install time? Startup time? Useless bloat?

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• DeaDvey@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  ed is better

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