Notepad++ and programmer's editors
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I've been hauling around my trusty Codewright long after its commercial demise because I have it wired up just the way I like it. However, other viable alternatives that I know of in terms of horsepower are Multi Edit and Visual Slick Edit. I mention this because a guy I know who's just getting into some html / javascript coding (and doesn't use Visual Studio of any stripe) is using Notepad++. I was talking to him about the importance of having good tools. After visiting their home page I'm simply not sure if Notepad++ is just a bit more powerful than Notepad or it's a true programmer's editor in its own right and an equal to all the other ones (both mentioned and not mentioned). Anyone here have enough experience with it to offer comparisons?
Christopher Duncan
www.PracticalUSA.com
Author of The Career Programmer and Unite the Tribes
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I've been hauling around my trusty Codewright long after its commercial demise because I have it wired up just the way I like it. However, other viable alternatives that I know of in terms of horsepower are Multi Edit and Visual Slick Edit. I mention this because a guy I know who's just getting into some html / javascript coding (and doesn't use Visual Studio of any stripe) is using Notepad++. I was talking to him about the importance of having good tools. After visiting their home page I'm simply not sure if Notepad++ is just a bit more powerful than Notepad or it's a true programmer's editor in its own right and an equal to all the other ones (both mentioned and not mentioned). Anyone here have enough experience with it to offer comparisons?
Christopher Duncan
www.PracticalUSA.com
Author of The Career Programmer and Unite the Tribes
Copywriting ServicesI use it for a lot of javascript...it really is just a very enhanced and plugin expandable notepad. But, I'm used to it because it works well and there just isn't really anything flashy to it and you get exactly what you get. The plugins help and makes it easier to use, but I turn a lot of and just use the code highlighting, folding. Would be nice if it was more featured towards say projects, but that would destroy the "notepad" replacement part. Nothing special just a really well featured notepad in all essence.
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I've been hauling around my trusty Codewright long after its commercial demise because I have it wired up just the way I like it. However, other viable alternatives that I know of in terms of horsepower are Multi Edit and Visual Slick Edit. I mention this because a guy I know who's just getting into some html / javascript coding (and doesn't use Visual Studio of any stripe) is using Notepad++. I was talking to him about the importance of having good tools. After visiting their home page I'm simply not sure if Notepad++ is just a bit more powerful than Notepad or it's a true programmer's editor in its own right and an equal to all the other ones (both mentioned and not mentioned). Anyone here have enough experience with it to offer comparisons?
Christopher Duncan
www.PracticalUSA.com
Author of The Career Programmer and Unite the Tribes
Copywriting ServicesRecently, I've come to use Eclipse for all my PHP (and thus HTML/Javascript) development. I've also taken to using Eclipse (or MotoDev motorolas flavour) for Android development. Notepad++ is a great product, one that I did a lot of coding in for a good long while, but I never considered myself a power user of it. However, when it comes to managing projects, site layouts etc. I'm just finding Eclipse that little bit easier.
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I've been hauling around my trusty Codewright long after its commercial demise because I have it wired up just the way I like it. However, other viable alternatives that I know of in terms of horsepower are Multi Edit and Visual Slick Edit. I mention this because a guy I know who's just getting into some html / javascript coding (and doesn't use Visual Studio of any stripe) is using Notepad++. I was talking to him about the importance of having good tools. After visiting their home page I'm simply not sure if Notepad++ is just a bit more powerful than Notepad or it's a true programmer's editor in its own right and an equal to all the other ones (both mentioned and not mentioned). Anyone here have enough experience with it to offer comparisons?
Christopher Duncan
www.PracticalUSA.com
Author of The Career Programmer and Unite the Tribes
Copywriting ServicesChristopher Duncan wrote:
After visiting their home page I'm simply not sure if Notepad++ is just a bit more powerful than Notepad or it's a true programmer's editor in its own right and an equal to all the other ones (both mentioned and not mentioned).
It's a pretty decent application NP++. Out of the box it's a bit vanilla, but certainly a competent text editor (and vastly superior to Notepad). But install some of the plug-ins[^] (NppExec is a good one) and it does become a pretty sophisticated development tool. Furthermore, there's plenty of scope for writing your own plug-ins, even in .Net if you install the .Net wrapper plug-in. I use it mostly for scripting-type languages (Python, mostly), especially for small quick one-off apps to do something specific and it has yet to give me any problems. Not sure I'd want to write a big C# app with it, though, VS (despite its faults) does an excellent job at that - and there's always SharpDevelop if money's tight and the VS Express editions don't cut the mustard.
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I've been hauling around my trusty Codewright long after its commercial demise because I have it wired up just the way I like it. However, other viable alternatives that I know of in terms of horsepower are Multi Edit and Visual Slick Edit. I mention this because a guy I know who's just getting into some html / javascript coding (and doesn't use Visual Studio of any stripe) is using Notepad++. I was talking to him about the importance of having good tools. After visiting their home page I'm simply not sure if Notepad++ is just a bit more powerful than Notepad or it's a true programmer's editor in its own right and an equal to all the other ones (both mentioned and not mentioned). Anyone here have enough experience with it to offer comparisons?
Christopher Duncan
www.PracticalUSA.com
Author of The Career Programmer and Unite the Tribes
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I've been hauling around my trusty Codewright long after its commercial demise because I have it wired up just the way I like it. However, other viable alternatives that I know of in terms of horsepower are Multi Edit and Visual Slick Edit. I mention this because a guy I know who's just getting into some html / javascript coding (and doesn't use Visual Studio of any stripe) is using Notepad++. I was talking to him about the importance of having good tools. After visiting their home page I'm simply not sure if Notepad++ is just a bit more powerful than Notepad or it's a true programmer's editor in its own right and an equal to all the other ones (both mentioned and not mentioned). Anyone here have enough experience with it to offer comparisons?
Christopher Duncan
www.PracticalUSA.com
Author of The Career Programmer and Unite the Tribes
Copywriting ServicesI've tried and tried to like Notepad++ but always found it a tiny bit clunky - one I typically use is SciTE[^] which was originally a demonstration app written for the Scintilla editor component (which Notepad++ utilises) but somehow always preferred it to Notepad++ and any other alternatives. If only there was a nice way of tweaking it so that it looked like Visual Studio's (i.e. the way it handles collapsed code and so on) then it'd be the perfect editor.
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I've been hauling around my trusty Codewright long after its commercial demise because I have it wired up just the way I like it. However, other viable alternatives that I know of in terms of horsepower are Multi Edit and Visual Slick Edit. I mention this because a guy I know who's just getting into some html / javascript coding (and doesn't use Visual Studio of any stripe) is using Notepad++. I was talking to him about the importance of having good tools. After visiting their home page I'm simply not sure if Notepad++ is just a bit more powerful than Notepad or it's a true programmer's editor in its own right and an equal to all the other ones (both mentioned and not mentioned). Anyone here have enough experience with it to offer comparisons?
Christopher Duncan
www.PracticalUSA.com
Author of The Career Programmer and Unite the Tribes
Copywriting ServicesI finally took a look at it. Looks like too many features, not a text editor at all. Too new-fangled.
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I've been hauling around my trusty Codewright long after its commercial demise because I have it wired up just the way I like it. However, other viable alternatives that I know of in terms of horsepower are Multi Edit and Visual Slick Edit. I mention this because a guy I know who's just getting into some html / javascript coding (and doesn't use Visual Studio of any stripe) is using Notepad++. I was talking to him about the importance of having good tools. After visiting their home page I'm simply not sure if Notepad++ is just a bit more powerful than Notepad or it's a true programmer's editor in its own right and an equal to all the other ones (both mentioned and not mentioned). Anyone here have enough experience with it to offer comparisons?
Christopher Duncan
www.PracticalUSA.com
Author of The Career Programmer and Unite the Tribes
Copywriting ServicesNotepad++ is built on Scintilla, right? I swear by Scite, which uses Scintilla. I discovered it in 2003, thanks to CP's Davy Mitchell.
Cheers, Vikram. (Got my troika of CCCs!)
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I've been hauling around my trusty Codewright long after its commercial demise because I have it wired up just the way I like it. However, other viable alternatives that I know of in terms of horsepower are Multi Edit and Visual Slick Edit. I mention this because a guy I know who's just getting into some html / javascript coding (and doesn't use Visual Studio of any stripe) is using Notepad++. I was talking to him about the importance of having good tools. After visiting their home page I'm simply not sure if Notepad++ is just a bit more powerful than Notepad or it's a true programmer's editor in its own right and an equal to all the other ones (both mentioned and not mentioned). Anyone here have enough experience with it to offer comparisons?
Christopher Duncan
www.PracticalUSA.com
Author of The Career Programmer and Unite the Tribes
Copywriting ServicesConsider Ultraedit[^] (for $59.95) Had a copy of it once at work a few years back. Beats anything I've ever used.
If the post was helpful, please vote, eh! Current activities: Book: Devils by Fyodor Dostoyevsky Project: Hospital Automation, final stage Learning: Image analysis, LINQ Now and forever, defiant to the end. What is Multiple Sclerosis[^]?
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I'd have to disagree on that. I tried using NP2 for quite some time and it just can't even come close to NP++.
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I've been hauling around my trusty Codewright long after its commercial demise because I have it wired up just the way I like it. However, other viable alternatives that I know of in terms of horsepower are Multi Edit and Visual Slick Edit. I mention this because a guy I know who's just getting into some html / javascript coding (and doesn't use Visual Studio of any stripe) is using Notepad++. I was talking to him about the importance of having good tools. After visiting their home page I'm simply not sure if Notepad++ is just a bit more powerful than Notepad or it's a true programmer's editor in its own right and an equal to all the other ones (both mentioned and not mentioned). Anyone here have enough experience with it to offer comparisons?
Christopher Duncan
www.PracticalUSA.com
Author of The Career Programmer and Unite the Tribes
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Consider Ultraedit[^] (for $59.95) Had a copy of it once at work a few years back. Beats anything I've ever used.
If the post was helpful, please vote, eh! Current activities: Book: Devils by Fyodor Dostoyevsky Project: Hospital Automation, final stage Learning: Image analysis, LINQ Now and forever, defiant to the end. What is Multiple Sclerosis[^]?
I love Notepad++ more than Ultraedit, I think Notepad++ is easier to use and has a better xml support. I have been using Notepad++ since several years and I like it very much, espcecially the wide programming language support.
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Consider Ultraedit[^] (for $59.95) Had a copy of it once at work a few years back. Beats anything I've ever used.
If the post was helpful, please vote, eh! Current activities: Book: Devils by Fyodor Dostoyevsky Project: Hospital Automation, final stage Learning: Image analysis, LINQ Now and forever, defiant to the end. What is Multiple Sclerosis[^]?
I Agree, UltraEdit is by far the best editor available. It is the best piece of software I have ever spend some money on.
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I've been hauling around my trusty Codewright long after its commercial demise because I have it wired up just the way I like it. However, other viable alternatives that I know of in terms of horsepower are Multi Edit and Visual Slick Edit. I mention this because a guy I know who's just getting into some html / javascript coding (and doesn't use Visual Studio of any stripe) is using Notepad++. I was talking to him about the importance of having good tools. After visiting their home page I'm simply not sure if Notepad++ is just a bit more powerful than Notepad or it's a true programmer's editor in its own right and an equal to all the other ones (both mentioned and not mentioned). Anyone here have enough experience with it to offer comparisons?
Christopher Duncan
www.PracticalUSA.com
Author of The Career Programmer and Unite the Tribes
Copywriting Services -
I've been hauling around my trusty Codewright long after its commercial demise because I have it wired up just the way I like it. However, other viable alternatives that I know of in terms of horsepower are Multi Edit and Visual Slick Edit. I mention this because a guy I know who's just getting into some html / javascript coding (and doesn't use Visual Studio of any stripe) is using Notepad++. I was talking to him about the importance of having good tools. After visiting their home page I'm simply not sure if Notepad++ is just a bit more powerful than Notepad or it's a true programmer's editor in its own right and an equal to all the other ones (both mentioned and not mentioned). Anyone here have enough experience with it to offer comparisons?
Christopher Duncan
www.PracticalUSA.com
Author of The Career Programmer and Unite the Tribes
Copywriting ServicesPerhaps this will help you decide? http://xkcd.com/378/[^] :-O
I know you believe you understood what you think I said, but I am not sure you realize what you heard is not what I meant.
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Perhaps this will help you decide? http://xkcd.com/378/[^] :-O
I know you believe you understood what you think I said, but I am not sure you realize what you heard is not what I meant.
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I've been hauling around my trusty Codewright long after its commercial demise because I have it wired up just the way I like it. However, other viable alternatives that I know of in terms of horsepower are Multi Edit and Visual Slick Edit. I mention this because a guy I know who's just getting into some html / javascript coding (and doesn't use Visual Studio of any stripe) is using Notepad++. I was talking to him about the importance of having good tools. After visiting their home page I'm simply not sure if Notepad++ is just a bit more powerful than Notepad or it's a true programmer's editor in its own right and an equal to all the other ones (both mentioned and not mentioned). Anyone here have enough experience with it to offer comparisons?
Christopher Duncan
www.PracticalUSA.com
Author of The Career Programmer and Unite the Tribes
Copywriting ServicesSooner or later someone has to mention it: Vi Gvim (for windows): http://www.vim.org/download.php#pc In windows I set gVim as default thing to open .py, .html, .tex files, but use Notepad2 for my .txt. In linux it's vi or gvim for everything.
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I'd have to disagree on that. I tried using NP2 for quite some time and it just can't even come close to NP++.
Notepad2 is the best replacement ever for windows notepad. But, like you, it does not compare with NP++ But, I think we cant compare them, the target of use is very different, I like notepad2 to read logs, write text files, make some fast modification to source files, etc, but np++ comes better for scripting languages and files with a lot of lines of code. The plugin interface is very simple, I made a plugin for our source control system very easily, and there are a lot of usefulls plugins on the web, one that comes to my mind now is FunctionList, not very stable, but very very usefull, NppNetNote was another plugin that I found funny and usefull too. I've got both of them on my computer, and I am always using both
Saludos!! ____Juan
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I've been hauling around my trusty Codewright long after its commercial demise because I have it wired up just the way I like it. However, other viable alternatives that I know of in terms of horsepower are Multi Edit and Visual Slick Edit. I mention this because a guy I know who's just getting into some html / javascript coding (and doesn't use Visual Studio of any stripe) is using Notepad++. I was talking to him about the importance of having good tools. After visiting their home page I'm simply not sure if Notepad++ is just a bit more powerful than Notepad or it's a true programmer's editor in its own right and an equal to all the other ones (both mentioned and not mentioned). Anyone here have enough experience with it to offer comparisons?
Christopher Duncan
www.PracticalUSA.com
Author of The Career Programmer and Unite the Tribes
Copywriting ServicesI have used EditPadPro for years. It compares nicely to UltraEdit, is $10 cheaper, and Jan has some other nice utilities that integrate with it. I particularly like his RegexBuddy... It makes debugging regular expressions a dream. Updates are free for life. :-D Check them out at http://www.jgsoft.com
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Notepad2 is the best replacement ever for windows notepad. But, like you, it does not compare with NP++ But, I think we cant compare them, the target of use is very different, I like notepad2 to read logs, write text files, make some fast modification to source files, etc, but np++ comes better for scripting languages and files with a lot of lines of code. The plugin interface is very simple, I made a plugin for our source control system very easily, and there are a lot of usefulls plugins on the web, one that comes to my mind now is FunctionList, not very stable, but very very usefull, NppNetNote was another plugin that I found funny and usefull too. I've got both of them on my computer, and I am always using both
Saludos!! ____Juan
Personally, the only thing I find Notepad2 useful for is writing assembly. And even I, a confessed Real Programmer (in what is considered to be the bad sense of those words), don't write much assembly these days.
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