More likely they are direct ports of things from the highly popular Visual Studio Code as a lot of people used to bound out RAW HTML and other code in notepad for YEARS before Notepad++ was a thing.
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dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 8 months agoFun fact: Most of the features that people liked about the “new” Windows notepad were just stolen from Notepad++ anyway.
So you may as well just use Notepad++ and enjoy a better experience, plus about a zillion other things like numerous plugins, syntax highlighting for just about every programming language under the sun, immensely configurable color schemes, etc., etc., etc.
AlternateRoute@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
LethalSmack@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I think you mean you discovered vs code years before you found notepad++
Notepad++ has been around since 2003 years and vs code has been around since 2015.
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 8 months ago
A lot of those features were in visual studio 6, which was released in the late 90s or early 00s. Tabbed files, syntax highlighting for their supported formats (though it was a lot more tightly bound to those languages, like there was a visual basic program and a separate visual c/c++, n++ is the first I remember with arbitrary language syntax highlighting support), pretty sure it had a plugin system, too.
And vs6 was just the first one I used, they might have been present in vs5 or earlier versions.
LethalSmack@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Visual studio and visual studio code are not the same thing. Visual Studio is a full IDE and is expected to have those features and is clunky because of them. Or was, not sure where it is now. It’d be in the same category as netbeans, eclipsed, and intellij
Vs code is an enhanced lightweight text editor
Notepad++ is the original enhanced lightweight text editor
agent_flounder@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I suppose we could point to emacs for formatting and syntax highlighting
AlternateRoute@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
No I am saying people where coding html in plan old notepad way before notepad +
And separately with MS having popularity with VS code they likely ported the dev functions to ms notepad there is a good chance notepad++ was not the inspiration.
dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Then those features in VS Code were most likely heavily inspired by Notepad++ as well.
TL;DR: There’s no reason to stick with a shitty Microsoft application for this task since N++ exists and is, was, and probably forever will be superior.
MonkderZweite@feddit.ch 8 months ago
bound out RAW HTML and other code in notepad
You’re someone who likes pain huh?
AlternateRoute@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
Was making HTML pages long before Notpad++ was a thing young one.
Not saying I would do it that way now.
morrowind@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
Hardly “stolen”. Suff like tabs is very basic that n++ didn’t invent.
FaceDeer@kbin.social 8 months ago
And even if Notepad++ had invented it, it's not "stealing" to do the same thing. Notepad++ still has its tabs, nobody stole them. Copied them, maybe. Inspired by them, perhaps. "Stolen" is just a deliberately emotion-baiting term.
MonkderZweite@feddit.ch 8 months ago
Explorer still can’t do it though.
clearleaf@lemmy.world 8 months ago
They had that in win10 as well for about a week and then they took it away hoping nobody noticed it so it could be a win11 feature instead.