What about nano? Is it OK to choose a safe middle ground? I mean with ed I could just as well use butterflies.

BTW, notepad++ is popular on Windows. That's the sort of software what gets hijacked.

Everybody gangsta til XZ Utils gets an update

Would anybody be around to notice if it was?

the only book i own on text editing

eMacs wasn’t compromised!

vim is all i need and is all i’ll ever need.

Upstream infrastructure was compromised. Implying it’s a fault with Notepad++ fault is disingenuous. What OSS maintainer is going to think, “I need to pick a hosting provider that’s not going to get hacked by the Chinese government”? Unless your favorite editor is being hosted on infrastructure hardened against state level hackers, it’s not any better.

me reading this title and being transported to LiveJournal in 2005

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editors are bloat, manually flip the bits you want with your HANDS like a REAL programmer

Correct me if I'm wrong, but initial news about it serving malicious updates were false. You never got anything malicious thru updates, neither was the exe file/installer tampered with. The worst they actually did was redirect you to a fake site when pressing download, where the malicious file was distributed. GitHub and signed versions were never affected. What's also interesting is that the attacker selectively redirected people, not all of them. I always installed n++ using Ninite, so I'm in the clear.

The whole thing seems blown out of proportions. The amount of affected people is likely very small.

Visual editor?