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That seems like an awfully convoluted way to get a text editor for Linux.
by cwyers 8y ago
That seems like an awfully convoluted way to get a text editor for Linux.
- cpach 8y agoSure. I’m still amazed by the effort they put down.
- mivanchev 8y agoThank you very much!
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- azahk 8y agoDon't think there's anything in the world that compares to Notepad++.
- AnIdiotOnTheNet 8y agoI'm a big fan of Notepad++. I wish the UDL interface was a little more flexible, but at least I don't have to learn a new language to create one like I would with the otherwise similar Notepadqq.
- graycrow 8y agoThere is. Far Manager :)
- laumars 8y agoI do genuinely like Notepad++ but it’s hardly unique. If anything, I’d argue that it exists in a heavily saturated market.
- EamonnMR 8y agoI used it for a long time but eventually I realized that it's only killer feature was the file tree on the left which most editors have anyway.
- pcunite 8y agoThe search across all open documents is very good.
- thuf1r 8y agoI can't tell if this is sarcasm or not, but just in case, there are dozens of editors that are way better than notepad++. Feature rich ones like Sublime Text, or VS Code, or simple ones like xed / gedit.
- gambiting 8y agoSublime and VS Code are both huge in size and work rather slowly on older machines, despite being nothing else but text editors. I do support OP's statement - Notepad++ is the best text editor available(on windows).
- mivanchev 8y agoYep, I'm surprised how quickly we phase out perfectly healthy machines, just because the software quality keeps getting lower and lower. It's not good for the climate, among other things. I appreciate how zealous the Notepad++ developers are about performance and efficiency.
- azahk 8y agoVS Code has terrible performance. Are you the one who's being sarcastic?
- batrat 8y agolol?(Windows user perspective) Unless you run it on 10 year old hardware yes, terrible performance. Notepad is better. But if you have at least an ssd and 4gb of ram, I don't see any issues.
- swebs 8y agoGedit and Kate are both pretty great.
- mivanchev 8y agoThere's no other! An efficient, feature rich, usable product.
- muthdra 8y agoWine is at least a valid way to get sweet sweet video games for Linux like KOTOR, Half-Life 2, IL-2 Sturmovik and Call of Duty (examples from my low-end Intel graphics 4000 laptop).
- thuf1r 8y ago(HL2 has run natively on Linux for many years just FYI.)
- cwyers 8y agoI mean, this is "valid" if this is the software the author wants to run, I'm just surprised anyone would go to this kind of trouble to run Notepad++, which is something like my fifth-favorite text editor.
- mivanchev 8y agoIt was very frustrating at times, I cannot lie... It's my favorite editor though, so I just HAD to do it. Now I have to compile all of the plugins I use.
- mivanchev 8y agoImagine being able to play these games on ARM without emulation? This is also one of my goals, but as stated in the article, the effort to port them without source code is substantial.
- JoeAltmaier 8y agoIsn't it possible to do a static translation of the machine code to ARM, and run native?
- mivanchev 8y agoQuite possible. In the article I mention that a Lithuanian hacker by the name of notaz statically recompiled StarCraft, Diablo 1 & 2. But it's a huge effort, of course. Even better would be to (partially) decompile to, say, C for better performance.
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- mhd 8y agoApart from being a decent demonstration, editors are deeply personal. Some carpenters might not have a favorite hammer, but others do… There's a reason why you find emulations of most editors in history remade for "modern" systems, no matter whether that legacy system is TOPS, VM/CMS, Plan 9 or Windows.
- mivanchev 8y agoYes, this is the truth, thank you for saying it! I do feel phyiscal pain when having to edit something without my favorite editor =)