• Eheran@lemmy.world
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    20 days ago

    Is it though? I still always open notepad for random text stuff. What is better in ++?

    • ᴀᴍʙɪᴠɪᴏʟᴇɴᴛ@lemm.ee
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      20 days ago
      • Keeps your progress if you exit without saving
      • Supports tabs so you don’t have 5 separate notepad windows open
      • syntax highlighting for programming languages and markdown format
      • plugin support
      • can handle extremely large text files (I’ve opened 50gb text files and used ctrl+f to find terms and it worked fine)
      • superb tools for manipulating text (e.g., use reg expressions). Super easy and flexible in making mass edits.
      • dark mode support. That alone makes it superior lol

      If you just need a quick window open to make a note you might actually prefer Sticky Notes over Notepad!

      • mr_jaaay@lemmy.ml
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        19 days ago

        Just to point out that on Win11, Notepad also:

        • Keeps progress without saving
        • Supports tabs

        I use a bunch of text editors / note taking apps regularly (or semi-regularly) and Notepad is one of them (among others also Notepad++, VSC, Obsidian, Geany, Notion…).

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      20 days ago

      Notepad++ isn’t trying to shoehorn in AI for starters. It’s clear Microsoft is praying the current gimmicky narrative of AI will let the masses not realize this is a privacy nightmare.

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        20 days ago

        Notepad does that neither for me and has not for >20 years. So is there something that is actually better or not?

    • ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world
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      20 days ago

      Yes, it objectively is. And so are various other text editor options that are out there.

      But just speaking about Notepad++, you can scale it down to a very simple text editor (like Notepad), it you can easily ramp it up to a much more feature rich one. And for me, the ability to have a vertical list of files is a big plus. As is its ability to optionally show line numbers.

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        20 days ago

        So it is better because it can do more, but I assume not too too much? Because then we can also use word?