Notepad++ is perfectly fine to code in. With the wealth of plugins it has, it’s pretty similar to vscode in how you can trick it out with all sorts of things it can’t do by default.
I’m a tolerant person, but come on, man. Between VSCode, JetBrains, (n)vim and emacs, and I can’t think of a legitimate reason to use np++ for development over any of them.
I don't use JetBrains because it's not free, I mainly use VSCode since it is and works fine, but I would use np++ after that. I spent years working in np++.
I played with linux in the early '90s, but mostly got started on GenToo Linux years ago and they had people installing Nano when building from the ground up. I grew to like that and never really learned VIM. I did use emacs every now and again, but all of those have lots of unwieldy key combinations that require memorization and don't work like a lot of other programs people coming from, for instance, Windows would be at all familiar with. The barrier to entry was too high to bother with so it was wine and np++ since I was also still using Windows for work.
I've been forced to use a Mac for work for the last almost-year and still can't find anything as good as np++. BBCode is as close as I can get and I'm still not really a fan.
Macros man, being able to record a macro and use it quickly and easily is worth it’s weight in gold when you’re doing something super repetitive that there are no automatic refactors for.
And i hate the “modern sleek design” culture of making all the options hidden and difficult to reach. Notepad s interface is so fucking clean and usefull.
I still use intellij because of a lot of other things but quite often I find myself using notepad for specific tasks and it’s such a treat
I recently spent about two weeks trying to figure out why an intercontinental connection between two of our sites was broken. Not really my job, I just care about application level, but the network guys were beyond useless.
In the end I had the problem isolated to a specific network segment in India, which made them look at the right system and fix things. The reason? “We put up a firewall the day your problems started which blocks everything, if we allow your connection it works”.
<span style="color:#323232;">~ $ adware
</span><span style="color:#323232;">(...ncurses ad featuring blockchain shows for 10 seconds...)
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Sorry, internet connection is required to run adware.
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Aborted
</span><span style="color:#323232;">~ $
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">(plugs in ethernet cable)
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">~ $ adware
</span><span style="color:#323232;">(...ncurses ad featuring Threads displays for 10 seconds...)
</span><span style="color:#323232;">(...ncurses ad featuring next-gen Android displays for 10 seconds...)
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Press CTRL+C to skip the ad
</span><span style="color:#323232;">[^C[^C
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Got tired from ads? Buy Adware Pro for $5.99/mo [Y/n] n
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">ADWARE SHELL
</span><span style="color:#323232;">(C) 2023 Buy-n-Large Corp. All wrongs reserved
</span><span style="color:#323232;">---ad---
</span><span style="color:#323232;">How much do YOU think this advanced operating environment is worth?
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Just press F1 to get the answer!
</span><span style="color:#323232;">---ad---
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Activate Adware
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Go to Settings to Activate Adware
</span><span style="color:#323232;">% exit
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Please watch all the ads to be able to exit.
</span><span style="color:#323232;">(...ncurses ad featuring alt medicine displays for 30 seconds...)
</span><span style="color:#323232;">(...ncurses ad featuring ad-blocker for 30 seconds...)
</span><span style="color:#323232;">[^C
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Interrupt rejected. Please watch all the ads.
</span><span style="color:#323232;">[^C[^C[^D[^X[^Z[^Z[^Z (unplugs ethernet cable)
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Interrupt rejected. Please watch all the ads. Buy Adware Pro for $5.99 to allow interrupts.
</span>
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I had a PM postpone a critical part of a project since June, the hard deadline is on September 15th… I’ve insisted to start with it months ago and now he’s scrambling everyone to get this done yesterday.
It kinda annoys me that the lowercase L glyph is taller than capital A. I don’t mind there being a difference, but cap-height should be taller than lowercase letters.
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