• dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Fun fact: Most of the features that people liked about the “new” Windows notepad were just stolen from Notepad++ anyway.

    So you may as well just use Notepad++ and enjoy a better experience, plus about a zillion other things like numerous plugins, syntax highlighting for just about every programming language under the sun, immensely configurable color schemes, etc., etc., etc.

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      Hardly “stolen”. Suff like tabs is very basic that n++ didn’t invent.

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        And even if Notepad++ had invented it, it’s not “stealing” to do the same thing. Notepad++ still has its tabs, nobody stole them. Copied them, maybe. Inspired by them, perhaps. “Stolen” is just a deliberately emotion-baiting term.

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          They had that in win10 as well for about a week and then they took it away hoping nobody noticed it so it could be a win11 feature instead.

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      More likely they are direct ports of things from the highly popular Visual Studio Code as a lot of people used to bound out RAW HTML and other code in notepad for YEARS before Notepad++ was a thing.

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        I think you mean you discovered vs code years before you found notepad++

        Notepad++ has been around since 2003 years and vs code has been around since 2015.

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          No I am saying people where coding html in plan old notepad way before notepad +

          And separately with MS having popularity with VS code they likely ported the dev functions to ms notepad there is a good chance notepad++ was not the inspiration.

      • dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️@lemmy.world
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        Then those features in VS Code were most likely heavily inspired by Notepad++ as well. Notepad++ was publicly released in 2003, which in computing terms may as well be the neolithic era.

        TL;DR: There’s no reason to stick with a shitty Microsoft application for this task since N++ exists and is, was, and probably forever will be superior.

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          Was making HTML pages long before Notpad++ was a thing young one.

          Not saying I would do it that way now.