• AlternateRoute@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    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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      1 year ago

      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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        1 year ago

        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.

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      1 year ago

      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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        1 year ago

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

        Not saying I would do it that way now.