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.
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AlternateRoute@lemmy.ca 8 months agoMore 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.
dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 8 months ago
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.
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
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 8 months ago
They were features of the text editor that was a part of the integrated development environment. My point was that even though vs code came after n++, those features were a part of the visual studio line, which vs code is a successor of, so if there was inspiration it was more likely in the direction of vs -> n++, though realistically there was probably transfer in both directions over time.
agent_flounder@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I suppose we could point to emacs for formatting and syntax highlighting
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Yeah, vim also has it today, but I don’t know how far back that goes. Screen splitting, too, I use that all the time in vim and GUI editors.
TheRealKuni@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Plus an electric list is far superior to tabs. Tabs are too usable. I want to have to hit ctrl+X, L before I can change files.
/s just in case.
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.