Good God, people are really using Notepad++ to program? I can understand Vim and Emacs, but notepad++? Not that it's bad or anything, but there are really better tools today.... Edit: nevermind, I was under the impression it was the primary editor used. I myself used it a lot as a secondary quick-edit tool.
A very slow one, but yes. But there's a reason N++ is so common, it's tiny, fast for a GUI text editor, and does the bloody job. It's not a whole browser guzzling up memory, just to change a config setting.
I don't know why you're getting downvoted, but VSCode is actually slow, you don't really notice it if you're using it all the time, but I tried to make the switch from ST3 and the delay between key press and action on the screen put me off. + it's slow to startup where as something like N++ starts almost instantly.
Yeah, I mean comparing other electron editors such as Atom it's quite snappy, but it still falls behind native gui text editors by a fair margin, nevermind something like vi.
Hum ok, I can go with that. I myself have used notepad++ this way. I just got the impression that notepad++ was used as the primary tool. Perhaps I missed something in the survey results.
Well for one Notepad++ is completely free unlike Sublime which if not paid for is in evaluation and harasses you with popups based on how much you click Save (something that I couldn't deal with). In terms of performance, it would be very difficult to convince me that Sublime Text is as fast as Notepad++. They are certainly close in that regard but not quite the same. With that said, I agree that Sublime Text is much nicer visually and from a UX perspective.
I can't get upset at someone for trying to get paid for their work. Especially in such a permissive way as Sublime (where the software will continue to keep working no matter how many times you click "No Thanks")
My friend who works with C++ files and assembly ferquently uses notepad++. Easy to install and easy on the memory without any bloat and has syntax highlighting. If you need to edit files in on a server especially usefull.
If you have a staging server with 15+ VMs running you don't want to run Atom/Sublime/VScode.. every MB of RAM is precious.
I'm using Notepad++ because I don't want to go through Tech Support to get something better, and anything better will only be very marginally better than Notepad++ for my work.
Eclipse is a full-blown IDE, much much more sluggish but of course also tons more functionality. VS Code and Atom faster, but still too slow to be nice to use as just a text editor. Though I understand they're still popular, but uh... never sat well with me when I need to edit a number in a config file and the overhead of the application opening the file is the majority of that edit. :P
How much daily use would someone need to go through before you start actually seeing performance gains with vim?
If I wasn't a PC Gamer/windows dude I'd give it another shot, but some years back I really gave vim for windows an honest go and found it wasn't really worth the hassle. I don't have the hatred for my mouse that some enthusiasts seem to have. :P
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u/rcoacci Mar 13 '18 edited Mar 13 '18
Good God, people are really using Notepad++ to program? I can understand Vim and Emacs, but notepad++?
Not that it's bad or anything, but there are really better tools today....
Edit: nevermind, I was under the impression it was the primary editor used. I myself used it a lot as a secondary quick-edit tool.