I eventually gave up on Notepad++ because I became increasingly frustrated with the syntax highlighting inconsistencies.

I was trying to get Solarized Markdown highlighting working.

Edit: I lie, it was Twilight [0]

I just wanted to get that working with Markdown - but there are just so many limitations with the syntax highlighting system and I was always making tradoffs.

I switched to Sublime (cross platform, prettier, more performant, fuzzy finding, better highlighting, better shortcuts, better plugins - but closed source) and then to Vim (cross platform + ssh, open source, PITA to learn but gains from the more programmable way of editing, the potential to match or better most aspects of ST)

[0]: https://github.com/ianchanning/Notepad---Markdown-Highlighti...

Notepad++ was nice back in the day but it's easily among the worst editors now.

I use Sublime because I absolutely can't live without multicursors.

VSCode[1] has multicursors and I believe that atom[2] does too... not advocating for your switch, you should be happy with whatever editor you choose, but, that feature is more wide-spread than people realize.

[1]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/29953479/multiple-cursor... [2]: https://atom.io/packages/multi-cursor

I think he just wanted to explain why Notepad++ and Geany are not an option for him.

Notepad++ have multicursors https://notepad-plus-plus.org/features/multi-editing.html and block editing https://notepad-plus-plus.org/features/column-mode-editing.h... . Don't know about Geany.

That's good to know, thx. The last time I checker Notepad++ did not have them and I decided to stay with Sublime.

Last time I've used Notepad++ was around 5 years ago and this feature was there already so it's there for a while. I'm glad that I could help.

there's Vim-multiple-cursors on Vim that works really similar to the ST multicursor

https://github.com/terryma/vim-multiple-cursors

notepad++ has horrible project workspace navigation. Any trivial UI that requires horizontal scrollbar is just not ready for prime time. go back to the drawing board