Alternatives to Notepad++?
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What text editors do you guys use?
I am currently using Notepad++ to compare and analyze large configs for different devices daily and wondering if there are better alternatives?I have heard of emacs and vim but don’t know the features that might help me.Do people here use Notepad++?
I rarely see web developers using Notepad++, it’s mostly Sublime or Atom for them.I wanna know what is the difference as a web developer POV .
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Obviously this is the wrong place to ask. There are probably very few non-Notepad++ users that visit this forum. You can mostly get answers regarding what alternatives were tried before going back to Notepad++.
Vim is the masochist editor of choice. Extremely powerful and extremely difficult to use (not to say master). Its advantages are: (1) it’s light (2) it’s not-gui (3) it comes with almost every Linux installation. For embedded developers that need to ssh into remote gui-less machines and perform some light editing on a file or two this is the tool of choice.
Don’t know much about web developers but trying to be a troll I would guess most web developers are required to have delicate taste for the visual which is offended by Notepad++ archaic look so they prefer the more modern alternatives.
Personally I use Notepad++ for coding, VIM (as less as reasonably possible) for the purpose stated above and for comparing text files I like diffuse .
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Just to second, I use both Notepad++ and Vim for the reasons stated above. It is more powerful than NPP and more difficult to learn and use. It also has a much bigger plugin community which is something that I wish NPP had. I use both for coding.
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@Steven-Haymes said:
much bigger plugin community
I think N++ offers a decently-sized choice of plugins, but as I’m not familiar with vim, maybe I’m miscalibrated. :-~