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Notepad++ creator threatens legal action over macOS port of open-source app — developer says port is fine, but branding is too far (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] 8 points 6 months ago (5 children)

notepad++ is one of my 'must haves' on any pc. even with how shitty it looks on linux, it still does everything i expect it to. irfanview is another, there simply isn't anything native to linux that has its feature set and ease-of-use. i gave up my paint.net and paintshop pro for linux, but i need the other two to work.

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  • [–] 14 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    (Serious question not trying to be a dick)

    What is so special about notepad++ that no other editors have? I have not used it extensively myself (and last time I ever even did was probably 10yr ago), so I don't know it well enough, I actually can't remember what made me use it over the stock notepad back when I did use windows but it must have been some feature.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago

    It used to be leagues better than the default on windows, having plugins, hex-view for binary files, actual history instead of one undo, ability to open big files without much trouble, formatting and syntax highlight. At least, those were the reasons I used it, nowadays I still install it and set as default, but don't use that much. And I moved to Linux anyway

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