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Notepad++ is one of the fastest and the best editors out there. Products like these show that over a given period of time, people being to notice the subtle di
by vvnraman 14y ago
Notepad++ is one of the fastest and the best editors out there.
Products like these show that over a given period of time, people being to notice the subtle differences between the speed of simple things, like the time taken for the context menu to appear, or the drop-down for word completion to appear. This is primarily why my use of IDEs has decreased over time. It just takes a little too long for doing stuff in them, and hinders your natural flow.
By the way, their word completion (Settings -> Preferences -> Backup/Auto-completion -> Word Completion) is simply their killer feature and has spoiled me for any other editors.
- aith 14y agoI love Notepad++ but there must be 1000s of awesome features like this that I'm still not aware of. Thanks for the tip.
- olsonea 14y agoThe Compare plugin is one such feature. It highlights the deltas between two files. edit: forgive me if you're already aware of it.
- sad_panda 14y agoM-/ in Emacs. ;)
- meow 14y ago+1 for the speed. Not many IDEs seem to care for that any more. Especially most java based IDEs. They feel so sluggish even for the most rudimentary of tasks (opening menus, launching, closing, autocomplete etc)
- jussij 14y agoFWIW the Zeus editor has a lot of IDE like features yet it still feals like a fast text editor.
- Joeri 14y agoI switched from zend studio to phpstorm almost entirely due to speed, with product quality being the other part of what drove me. Fundamentally, an ide is still a code editor, and it has to do that at least as well as notepad++ or i will not use it.
- jtdennis 14y agoWow, I've been using n++ for years and never realized that feature was there. It'll save me so much time. Thanks!
- platz 14y agoI never realized this either. Thanks!