News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on NirSoft Freeware (2008). Parent comment

Re:NirSoft Freeware (2008) by badsectoracula on Monday April 16, 2018 @07:19PM (#16853863)
Notepad is just for taking quick notes and viewing text files and for that it is perfectly fine. It is my most used default Windows accessory (i do not include explorer on that of course) and even on Linux i install Leafpad[1] which is basically a Gtk2-based clone of Notepad and i use for pretty much the same reasons (taking quick temporary notes, writing out stuff, viewing text files, etc). I use another text editor for editing code (Notepad++ on Windows, Geany on Linux) that has a more busy and heavyweight UI that i am ok when working for long sessions. Notepad/Leafpad/etc is supposed to be as minimal as it gets, launch instantly, etc.

The only things that i'd like is support for Unix line endings and perhaps autoindentation. But considering that Notepad is really just the `EDIT` window wrapped up in a toplevel window frame and i doubt Microsoft is going to touch `EDIT` anymore (which is sad but that is beyond the point and FWIW much harder than just improving Notepad itself) i'm fine with that.

[1] http://tarot.freeshell.org/leafpad/

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:NirSoft Freeware (2008) by freedomben on Monday April 16, 2018 @07:31PM (#16853951)
Interesting to hear of someone using Geany for coding on Linux. I used it briefly maybe a decade ago when I was still a vim noob. Glad to hear it's still around and used by at least one person :-)
[ Parent | on HN ]