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The quest for a great text editor: A brief intro to Notepad++

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I am far from the only person on a quest for the perfect text editor. It's become so much a part of technology culture that I've actually had the interview question "Vim or GNU Emacs?" come up a couple of times in my career. The bitter truth that regular users of text editors must face, however, is that there just is no One Ring of text editing. Different software development practices, different platforms, even the mindset of the user, can affect the right choice for that moment. read more

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Comments (6)

froggiedogger ·
why is this post here, it is about WINDOWS, not linux. how do I report abuse??

This web site is 'linux news', not 'opensource windows' news.
penguinist ·
Notepad++ is not Linux software, true enough, but it is Free/Open Source Software licensed under GPL 2.0.

Its source code is available on Github here:

https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus
vainrveenr ·
Quoting:why is this post here, it is about WINDOWS, not linux...
Quoting:Notepad++ is not Linux software, true enough, but it is Free/Open Source Software licensed under GPL 2.0.


A very few of the more popular F/LOSS GUI text and code editors among all Linux users are (in alphabetical order)

- Atom

- Bluefish

- Brackets

- Geany

It is likely a matter of opinion whether XEmacs should or should not be included here as well.



mbaehrlxer ·
XEmacs is dead: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XEmacs

but Emacs caught up with XEmacs already a long time ago, so you could include that, and add gvim while you are at it :-)

greetings, eMBee.
Steven_Rosenber ·
Since it's a free program, it certainly belongs on this site. It also happens to be my go-to editor when I'm running Windows.

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