209

Notepad++ v8.6: 20th-Year Anniversary (notepad-plus-plus.org)

submitted 1 year ago by leo@lemmy.linuxuserspace.show to c/opensource@lemmy.ml

26 comments fedilink hide all child comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[-] grandel@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 year ago

I've switched from NPP years ago. Can somebody please explain why it's so popular?

[-] mp3@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago

It's snappier and more private than VSCode at the very least.

[-] AzzyDev@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago

idk why people don’t just use codium instead

[-] IrritableOcelot@beehaw.org 2 points 11 months ago

Because of the snappiness -- codium is no faster than code. For me, NPP is used for making single-word changes to a bunch of files in a row--like vim, but a GUI.

[-] tiita@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

It's

Free Updated very regularly It has awesome plugins Themes Fantastic search / replace capabilities Support the formatting of a lot of languages Very light weight Keeps open all those files forever and ever

It's just very good..

Think of it as the vlc of txt files