Notepad++ - Unhappy Users' Edition

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  • notepad-plus-plus

    Notepad++ official repository

    I don't think anybody here is saying -- implied or otherwise -- that N++ is beyond reproach. You can even browse around this thread and it won't take long to find people saying "I don't like X, but Notepad++ is still great". It has idiosyncrasies -- I've ran into plenty myself -- and in fact at the time of writing there are exactly 8008 (lol) times N++ has been officially reproached. Rather, I think the point is more that there are productive channels to provide constructive feedback, and sending the developer a private "I'm sick of you and your program and I'm not going to use it anymore" email is not one of those channels. Even if we assume the sender has valid complaints they're still just being an asshole about it because of the tone they chose to use to convey those complaints.

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    Visual Studio Code

  • InfluxDB

    Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  • NotepadNext

    A cross-platform, reimplementation of Notepad++

    Check out Notepad Next for Linux. Everyone is talking about Notepadqq but in my experience it seems to be outdated and not feature complete. I enjoy Notepad Next much more.

  • Notepad-Sharp

    Notepad# is basically an attempt o try to remake most of Notepad++’s basic features(such as code highlighting, code folding, the tabbed UI, etc) in C#.

    Already exists in the form of an unrelated text editor and a Notepad++ plugin.

  • NotepadSharp

    Plugin for Notepad++ with many many features.

    Already exists in the form of an unrelated text editor and a Notepad++ plugin.

  • Chocolatey

    Chocolatey - the package manager for Windows

    Let me introduce you to my favorite thing ever, chocolatey

  • vim-multiple-cursors

    True Sublime Text style multiple selections for Vim

    To be precise I'm talking about something like this plugin does

  • WorkOS

    The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

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