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> I was coming from Notepad on Windows Ouch. You didn't use Notepad++?

• Symbiote 3y ago
  Notepad++ would have been very new at that time. I don't know what those early releases were like. But there were similar editors. I remember using SCIte which was similar to Notepad++. SCIte was first released in 1999.
  • distances 3y ago
    My editor of choice back in the Windows days was EditPlus, from 1998 (and looks like it's still maintained). I think it had syntax highlighting from the start too.
  • lproven 3y ago
    Notepad++ is based on Scintilla, for which Scite is sort of the demo program. Scintilla is also the basis of Geany. I explained this recently on the Reg. Read the Reg. ;-) https://www.theregister.com/2023/12/06/veteran_editors_notepad_and_geany/ https://www.theregister.com/2023/12/06/veteran_editors_notep...