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Whenever I use Notepad for quick edits it trips me up with its lack of Unicode support and inability to handle Unix-style line endings. I've tried to write (i.
by michaelgrafl 8y ago
Whenever I use Notepad for quick edits it trips me up with its lack of Unicode support and inability to handle Unix-style line endings.
I've tried to write (i.e. read) code without syntax highlighting for giggles, too. But I felt like it really slowed me down (i.e. cost me more energy to focus).
You know there is a middle ground between Notepad and Visual Studio, in various places on the spectrum, right?
- tdeck 8y agoNotepad also has an undo "queue" only one level deep. When I last used it I found that very frustrating, particularly in a non-modal editor where it's not clear what counts as a single change.