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.

[–] kogasa@programming.dev 20 points 1 year ago (6 children)

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.

[–] PieMePlenty@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago (4 children)

You havent lived until you wrote python over ssh in nano.

[–] gentooer@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago

Luckily all systems I had to do this on had vi installed.

[–] ByGourou@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

We wouldn't have to do that if vscode remote ssh was good

[–] Black616Angel@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago

But I mean this is (hopefully) an exception and not the norm.

[–] MikuNPC@lemm.ee 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's super fast in comparison to full IDEs and is easier to use than most editors. I switch between vscode and notepad++ depending on what im doing.

[–] DudeDudenson@lemmings.world 8 points 1 year ago

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

[–] GBU_28@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

If you accept confusing and unsettling peers who watch you screen share and hammer out keybinds that do mysterious things, then you're all set.

[–] pirrrrrrrr@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 year ago

The tiny, tiny footprint and speed to load.

I would think I'd probably use an IDE if I was coding all the time.

Heck, I'm only using it because JFE got too old.

I do have VSCode set up even with the same scheme as NP++... but let's face it, the most complex things I'm using are PowerShell and Node JS.

[–] tiredofsametab@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] kamenlady@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

VSCode for osx, why not use this?

[–] tiredofsametab@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ah, unclear on my part. I do use vscode on Mac, but still want a text editor to do other stuff.

[–] kamenlady@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

ah ok - yeah, i have the same struggle. Mac's default Editor is too Rich-Text centric.

[–] droans@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I'll use it for one-off short scripts. No point in doing the whole shebang for something that doesn't need it.

[–] slackassassin@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 year ago

Notepad++ gang