Comment on Notepad++ Hijacked by State-Sponsored Hackers

bgb_ca@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• Beyonder_Extreme@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Kate

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  • MadPsyentist@lemmy.nz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    +1 for Kate. I think its ment to be an acronym for KDE Advanced text editor but its a linux program that feels very close to notepad++ and will handle large files with gusto

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• ohshit604@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  VSCodium.

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• mathemachristian@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Emacs

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  • tehn00bi@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    He’s asking for a text editor, not to join a cult.

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• helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Rename the shortcut to notepad++2?

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• DacoTaco@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Ive always had notepad++ crash on large files or xml’s with no newlines. I use sublime in those cases :)

  That said, as a developer, notepad++ is a very often used tool haha

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  • how_we_burned@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I regularly open CSVs in the range of 500MB to 2GB in notepad++ without any problem…

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• cley_faye@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Notepad++ installed from any package manager was perfectly fine and safe.

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  • purplemonkeymad@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Well those would have included the update checker. So if you installed from a package manager, then let it update when prompted for the new version, you could still have been at risk.

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    • cley_faye@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I don’t know how most package managers on windows work, but usually, auto updates are disabled by default for software that comes from one. For example, Firefox installed using APT on various linux distro will not auto-update out of it.

      I vaguely remember chocolatey packages not really doing that, causing mismatch between installed versions and its internal database, though, so maybe it wasn’t that good of a solution.

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  • bgb_ca@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I know.

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• CeeBee_Eh@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Sublime 3

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  • ieGod@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Awesome choice but one crucial detail is that commercial use requires a license.

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• ICastFist@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I guess Geany could work?

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  • bgb_ca@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I downloaded that one today. It will work for now but it’s missing a couple of n++ features I use.

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    • ICastFist@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Which ones? I rarely explore all the tools and features that these text editors offer, so I’m really curious

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• kablez@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Zed! Fastest GUI editor out there other than Sublime Text.

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• midas22@lemmy.wtf ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I’m only using Sublime Text and the Notepad that is included with Windows. Not sure exactly what you’re looking for.

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• xuteloops@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  NotepadQQ 😆

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