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If it takes more than a second to load a text editor (or even a light IDE) I have no use for it. It's not just slow to load, it's also cumbersome to use compare
by morganvachon 6y ago
If it takes more than a second to load a text editor (or even a light IDE) I have no use for it. It's not just slow to load, it's also cumbersome to use compared to my preferred tools. Even on my old Core 2 Quad with a spinning hard drive, Geany loads in a split second with several tabs already queued up.
As you said, perhaps it's perspective, but even on my latest build (Ryzen 3600/RX5600XT/NVMe SSD) VSCode is agonizing compared to Notepad++ on Windows and Geany on Linux.
- g-b-r 6y ago> VSCode is agonizing compared to Notepad++ on Windows you're clearly not keeping 2793 files in your session.xml
- morganvachon 6y agoNo, generally no more than two dozen or so, and honestly that's pushing the limits of my sanity with a tabbed interface. Any more than that, and I'm switching to Geany and turning on the sidebar. I've tried the "Folder as Workspace" feature and the Explorer plugin in N++ and they aren't as user-friendly.
- g-b-r 6y agoN++ has had for a few years its own internal sidebar (Setting -> General -> Document List Panel), but I've always used the Window Manager plugin, that for some reason I don't recall (probably the Path column and its handling of the two views that I always keep open) I always found more comfortable. That said, my usage is not sane and is just a reflection of my organization capabilities and the constant postponement of switching to a better editor (one with good multi-sessions management, for example). A large part of the files are RFCs by the way, that I need from time to time (or just don't care about closing). I wouldn't be surprised if Geany were much better by the way, there's a lot I dislike in N++.
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