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Notepad++ 6.0 Released
- RegEx 15y agoNotepad++ was my first text editor of choice when I decided I wanted to do web development. I've since moved on to VIM, but I'm very glad to hear Notepad++ is still going strong.
- platz 15y agoSame story here! But I still use Notepad++ for quick tasks that I might otherwise have to spend a few thought cycles on in VIM. Also, I really like Notepad++'s Python Script plugin.
- crusso 15y agoWhat a great product, free or otherwise. It's always one of the first applications I download and install when I log into a Windows machine.
- sonar_un 15y agoI love Notepad++, but when I started using Sublime Text 2, I purchased it, and never looked back.
- skeletonjelly 15y agoMind elaborating on why?
- sonar_un 15y agoThe biggest reasons are being able to open projects and view all of the files in the project (and search through all of them) at a quick command. I really liked the themeing functions. Multiple OS compatibility (I regularly switch between macOS and Windows), so I needed a client that is used basically the same on both OS's. And one license is for all of the computers you use, and on all operating systems. The more I use it the more I like it. Sometimes I have files that still open in N++ and I quickly switch out of it into sublime. Oh, did I mention at the command line (in OSX) you can open files using the subl command (Very awesome).
- mappu 15y agoSearching through files in my project is one of the few reasons i keep terminal windows open next to N++. A quick `find . | grep "php$" | xargs grep "search_term" -isl"` or even `grep -Ilir "search term"` is never too far away, but it would be great if it were closer. My other nitpicks with N++ are the lack of a "yes to all" on the change-detection dialog when you do a hg update, and the way gedit seems to do ctags so much nicer. Seems like low-hanging fruit, maybe i should try to get a patch in.. Still, hard to beat and easy to recommend. I use it every day (it bought me a car!).
- jussij 15y ago>> the way gedit seems to do ctags so much nicer. The Zeus editor has ctags support that is effectively automatic.. All the user has to do is create a project/workspace and add files to that workspace.
- blntechie 15y agoI'm little curious on their no time limit evaluation and a license to buy for continuous use model. Is it just a good faith agreement to buy it if you intend to use continuously or it can be enforced later if it's detected it's used regularly?
- georgemcbay 15y agoIt is a good faith agreement, plus a nag dialog that pops up once in a while if you're running unlicensed.
- ohgodthecat 15y agoI believe it is just a nag window that pops up on file save sometimes. I used it for about 4 months before buying with no other interference.
- HCIdivision17 15y agoDitto. There are many computers that are not under my exclusive use, so I can't put Sublime Text 2 on them in good faith. And they're invariably Windows machines. I can throw Notepad++ on them fairly harmlessly, and the utility it provides is awesome. In a plant environment, its search functions are darn near magic for parsing SCADA logs.
- vvnraman 15y agoNotepad++ is one of the fastest and the best editors out there. Products like these show that over a given period of time, people being to notice the subtle differences between the speed of simple things, like the time taken for the context menu to appear, or the drop-down for word completion to appear. This is primarily why my use of IDEs has decreased over time. It just takes a little too long for doing stuff in them, and hinders your natural flow. By the way, their word completion (Settings -> Preferences -> Backup/Auto-completion -> Word Completion) is simply their killer feature and has spoiled me for any other editors.
- aith 15y agoI love Notepad++ but there must be 1000s of awesome features like this that I'm still not aware of. Thanks for the tip.
- olsonea 15y agoThe Compare plugin is one such feature. It highlights the deltas between two files. edit: forgive me if you're already aware of it.
- sad_panda 15y agoM-/ in Emacs. ;)
- meow 15y ago+1 for the speed. Not many IDEs seem to care for that any more. Especially most java based IDEs. They feel so sluggish even for the most rudimentary of tasks (opening menus, launching, closing, autocomplete etc)
- jussij 15y agoFWIW the Zeus editor has a lot of IDE like features yet it still feals like a fast text editor.
- Joeri 15y agoI switched from zend studio to phpstorm almost entirely due to speed, with product quality being the other part of what drove me. Fundamentally, an ide is still a code editor, and it has to do that at least as well as notepad++ or i will not use it.
- mey 15y agoAlways preferred jEdit, vim, and Notetab over Notepad++.
- prophetjohn 15y agoHands down my favorite editor for Windows, but when I'm using it, I still wish I was using gedit or TextMate.
- pooriaazimi 15y agoTry Sublime Text 2. It's fantastic (just like TextMate): http://www.sublimetext.com/2 http://www.sublimetext.com/2 It's free for now. Be sure to check Sublime package Manager. There are hundreds of Sublime extensions, many of which were ported directly from TextMate (and have .tmbundle suffix!): http://wbond.net/sublime_packages/package_control http://wbond.net/sublime_packages/package_control List of packages: http://wbond.net/sublime_packages/community#sort-installs http://wbond.net/sublime_packages/community#sort-installs
- danberger 15y ago+1 for Sublime. It is awesome... and for someone like me who switches b/w Windows and Linux, it's the perfect IDE.
- user2459 15y agoDefinitely not free, but non-self-crippling. "Sublime Text 2 may be downloaded and evaluated for free, however a license must be purchased for continued use. There is currently no enforced time limit for the evaluation."
- statictype 15y agoSublimeText 2 isn't really free. You have to pay for it, even now - just that it doesn't nag you too much. That said, it's a great editor.
- xpose2000 15y agoI just tried out Sublime Text 2. I can see the reason why its users like it. As for me, it seems to take somewhat easy tasks and makes them more difficult. Installing packages was a head-scratcher at first, even with your guidance. I'm just going to stick with Notepad++. It may not be pretty, but its straightforward and gets the job done.
- Karunamon 15y agoI love N++ for some of its XML handling features (being able to hit a menu item to get an xpath readout is handy), but I still find myself using GVim more often than not.
- zanny 15y agoI like notepad++, but have switched to geany because its cross platform :P
- Osiris 15y agoI come from a Windows background and recently switched to Mac at work. I'm a pretty heavy user of Notepad++ but so far all the good text editors I've found for Mac are shareware. What good free text editors do you recommend on Mac that have similar features, like syntax highlighting, auto-indent, and regular expression support?
- user2459 15y agogedit: http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/binaries/mac/gedit/3.2/ http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/binaries/mac/gedit/3.2/ text wrangler: http://www.barebones.com/products/textwrangler/download.html http://www.barebones.com/products/textwrangler/download.html redcar: http://redcareditor.com/ http://redcareditor.com/ but you're really not gonna get any better than textmate or sublime text 2
- jonburs 15y agoTextWranlger (BBEdit's free version) is one option -- http://www.barebones.com/products/textwrangler/ http://www.barebones.com/products/textwrangler/.
- chevas 15y agoKomodo Edit (the free version - http://www.activestate.com/komodo-edit http://www.activestate.com/komodo-edit, not Komodo IDE). Text Wrangler didn't cut it for me at all and neither did some of the paid editors out there for MAC. Komodo Edit is the only one I found that comes close to handling the syntax highlighting thing properly, not to mention that it is a robust editor. I even tried Coda for a while, but I always prefer Notepad++
- mp3geek 15y agoI'm personally a PSPad user, performs fine, does what I need to do in windows http://www.pspad.com/ http://www.pspad.com/
- pirateking 15y agoAhh Notepad++. My editor of choice when I first got into programming. After switching to Mac years ago, I have been using TextMate/Xcode/Emacs. There are only 3 things I look back on fondly from Windows: MSPaint, Winamp, and Notepad++.
- dkharrat 15y agoSame here, though I also miss WinSCP.
- rndstr 15y agoI switched to Filezilla instead.
- dchest 15y agoThere's Winamp for Mac http://www.winamp.com/mac http://www.winamp.com/mac ! It doesn't look the same, though. Paint-like program: http://paintbrush.sourceforge.net/ http://paintbrush.sourceforge.net/
- vinodkd 15y agoNo love for Textpad on HN? Its been running strong for ages and has the "just works" feel about it - always. Install it, switch to windows keybindings and you're good to go. And, it has editable macros. I live in the knowledge that I'm going to hell for not paying for that awesome piece of software!
- crescentfresh 15y agoTextpad's "Constrain the cursor to the text" feature is what I miss the most. I have never seen it present elsewhere.
- LVB 15y agoThis personal favorite from their About page lives on: "By optimizing as many routines as possible without losing user friendliness, Notepad++ is trying to reduce the world carbon dioxide emissions. When using less CPU power, the PC can throttle down and reduce power consumption, resulting in a greener environment." Gotta love such bold goals from a text editor :)
- PakG1 15y agoOh, come on, does text editing really use so many cycles that switching to Notepad++'s automations would really enable the CPU to throttle down? I'd think it'd be throttled down already for most text editing environments, if the user has that enabled.
- TeMPOraL 15y agoI'd like to use this joke as an opportunity for a more serious point. It's a thing that I actually always wondered. Why is the industry spending so much time advocating that we can write however unoptimal code we like, because it's always cheaper to throw in another server? Wouldn't spending time to optimize software be able to create serious savings in worldwide emissions, given that any given piece of software is likely to be used by 10k - 10M people? I know that optimizing software for carbon footprint is probably going against The Economy itself, but isn't it the point where our current economy of consumption and growth is leading us to destruction? Maybe there is way to incentivize savings more?
- gcp 15y agoDoes "Enhance the loading performance for the large file." mean it can edit files larger than your RAM now? UltraEdit could do this. I always find it unfortunate Notepad++ can't.
- electrotype 15y agoI use EditPad Pro instead of Notepad++ because of this. I'll try this new NotePad++ version today!
- electrotype 15y agoSadly I just tested it and it's still not that good with large files. I created a 185MB text file. It opens well, but: 1) Scrolling to the end is very slow 2) Finding a keyword which is near the end is very slow too I'll stick to EditPad Pro for now.
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- kemo 15y agoThe only two things I miss from Windows are Notepad++ and Total Commander (Ultima Prime). Killer combo.
- rplnt 15y agoI also miss Winamp (although not that much) and Miranda (IM client). When I'm on Linux I rather don't use any dedicated IM client at all. Just IRC + something web based. As with text editor, I never used Notepad++ too much but at the moment I use Komodo Edit. It seems fine to me and it is cross platform.
- jamesgeck0 15y agoWinamp? Bah, Foobar2000 is where it was at. Tiny resource usage, infinitely customizable, and an arcane UI. Switching to anything else feels like that cold, uneasy feeling you get when you run your favorite editor on a machine without your personal config file and try to use one of your custom keybindings.
- ripclaw 15y agoWas the same for me. For a Total Commander replacement give Forklift a try. It's not quite the same, but pretty good. I'm pretty much not touching Finder at all any more.
- ittan 15y agomy favoritest editor 1. Love the way Notepad++ handles drag and drop with hundreds of files. 2. Also love the way it opens large files.
- munchor 15y agoEven though I don't use it, because it's not cross-platform, it looks like a great text editor for all Windows users.
- yitchelle 15y agoNothing like a text editor post to get the emotions going..:-)
- ale55andro 15y agoThis is my editor of choice too. I love it and miss it everytime I have to switch editors when not working on windows.
- Achshar 15y agoeveryone seems to be talking about how great notepad++ is. don't get me wrong, i love it too, in fact it is my primary editor. But why isn't anyone talking about the changes that came with the update? There seems to be no changes from UI perspective. They could have just released another small update. One expects major changes with a left-most version number change. Or am i missing something? plus if my view counts, i would like a UI overhaul. Its still very XP-eyee.
- mulation 15y agoPerl style regular expression support is a big thing! I use notepad++ a lot, but the search has always reminded me of vim.
- Someone 15y agoIt is not only that it is Perl-style; this version also supports multiline regular expressions. I do not like that it requires you to know a file's line endings to use them, though: Mac. : a\rb Windows: a\r\nb Unix. : a\nb
- thewordis 15y agoI was able to do this in the previous version.
- jussij 15y agoBut is such a change worth a major version number increase?
- mulation 15y agoGoogle Chrome Team started this kind of "bigger version" war, now Firefox/IE/Linux, they are all in it :-)
- GoodIntentions 15y ago
- derrida 15y agoBut Notepad++ requires a binary blob called "Windows".
- Maro 15y agoHi, sorry, I downvoted you. The Guidelines say: Please avoid introducing classic flamewar topics unless you have something genuinely new to say about them. Also. Please don't submit comments complaining that a submission is inappropriate for the site. If you think something is spam or offtopic, flag it by going to its page and clicking on the "flag" link. (Not all users will see this; there is a karma threshold.) If you flag something, please don't also comment that you did.
- derrida 15y agoSure, I understand. :-)
- drhowarddrfine 15y agoThis makes the top of HN? What a sad day.
- wenbert 15y agoDoes it have "smart" word wrapping like Sublime Text 2? I think it is one of the killer features for me. I sometimes need to work with a small screen and need word-wrapping on.
- demetris 15y agoIf by smart wrapping you mean indented wrapping, yes, it does. Set you preferred wrap mode to Indent in Settins, Preferences, Editing, and then toggle Word Wrap from the View menu. SciTE, with which Notepad++ shares the scintilla editing component, has quite a few settings for wrapping: http://www.scintilla.org/SciTEDoc.html http://www.scintilla.org/SciTEDoc.html (Search for “wrap” in the page.) I haven’t looked into how many of those are supported in Notepad++, as I don’t use word wrap myself.
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- swapsmagic 15y agoWhy updating existing version shows "no update available" message?
- bluetidepro 15y agoI don't know if I will get flak for this but I really wish they made a Mac version.. :'(
- paul9290 15y agoCan notepadd++ be directly connected to your server so you can code, save and upload all from within the program?