A quiet person who loves coding.

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  • Aww, too bad

    I see a comment inbox but can’t see here. I’m pasting it here

    I switched to the fork as soon as I read this news. It shouldn’t take more than a few minutes:
    Just install it in parallel with the mainline app,
    export your existing configuration to the default storage location, import it in syncthing-fork (it’ll detect the export file automatically),
    and you’re done. Uninstall the official app so they don’t compete for the daemon and port.








  • DebianGuy@lemmy.mlOPtoLinux@lemmy.mlMy move to Linux
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    2 months ago

    VS Code has gotten really fast recently but it is more of a combination of having the right plugin (TextFX in this case) and the general fastness. Someone should ideally just port that TextFX. I thought about doing that a lot of times, but it was a lack of time + lack of skill issue :)

    Again I do use VS Code for the occasional frontend work. It is great but for all heavy duty manipulation sometime really is off in VS Code. It could be that I haven’t out of inertia tried too much.

    I don’t know if I can qualifiedly explain what it is about the plugins, they work well and have sane defaults. Notepad++ with all its custom panels, that plugins create a quite a clunkiness in there, but having those separate panels sometimes gives it a unique and flexible usage experience.

    About the edit thing, there are just so many options that sometimes I forget that TextFx plugin exists. There are 100 or so options in that edit menu neatly categorized into sub menus like Insert, Copy, Indent, Line Operations, Blank Operations, Auto-completion, Paste Special, On Selection, Multi-select All, etc each having 5 to 7 operations.

    Line Operations for example has these:

    Duplicate Current Line
    Remove Duplicate Lines
    Remove Consecutives Duplicate Lines
    Split Lines
    Join Lines
    ...
    Reverse Lines
    Randomize Lines
    ...
    Sort Lines Lexicographically Ascendlng
    
    and 10 or more 
    

    Another great thing is the whole design and the options around managing bookmarks while searching. I should write a blog post on it :)




  • DebianGuy@lemmy.mlOPtoLinux@lemmy.mlMy move to Linux
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    Agree on all counts about Notepad++ “oldness”

    • slower when we have 100 files open
    • clunky
    • rigid
    • old GUI paradigms ( settings modal, find modal etc)
    • inflexible and less customizable UI chrome area

    Few things I like about Notepad++ enough to actually keep on using it on work workstations:

    • Plugins ecosystem. I am too entrenched into it.
      • PoormansSqlFormatter
      • Tidy2
      • JSTool
      • XML Tools
      • ComparePlus
      • TextFx2
    • great built-in editing operations Edit > EOL
    • great bookmarking operations
    • Very active development
    • Way faster than VS Code for text manipulation tasks

    Geany with Plugins with is great but misses out on the above stuff

    Sublime is the only one and I could use it for a serious amount of time. I only went back because I could not often get it installed in some enterprises.


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    I have tried notepadqq, it is a bit promising, but I don’t think it can use the npp plugins yet. Thanks for the link, I will check it out.

    I know of TextAdept and loved it when I used it years back. Loved the extensibility part. Unfortunately could not stick to it mostly due to plugins IIRC.