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While I don't think most people (or even many) would agree with you. As someone who uses Vim pretty much exclusively (and has a Mac), I kind of had to smile at

by throwaway2016a 10y ago

While I don't think most people (or even many) would agree with you. As someone who uses Vim pretty much exclusively (and has a Mac), I kind of had to smile at this. For most people though, Notepad++ and Vim are not the same type of animal.

kedean 10y ago
Are they really, though? If you've put in the effort to learn Vim's command system (big if there), then they provide mostly the same things: - heavily centered around document editing - encourage plugins over embedded features - very good regex find/replace - very good at editing massive files (the main failing of most other editors) They both have syntax highlighting for most languages. I admit that some features of N++ need plugins in vim, of course, like spellcheck. I generally do use them for pretty interchangable situations.