Notepad++ v8.2 Released

There is no other third party text editor more efficient and lightweight than Notepad++ on Windows. I only use Notepad++ on Windows, to save my CPU cycles and RAM.

I used to be a big time notepad++ user, but at some point decided to try to use VSCode as my go to text editor. The ease of use and the large number of good quality extensions more than makes up for the slight latency at startup. To my big surprise VSCode can easily handle files of the size of hundreds of megabytes, it’s just great. I like notepad++, but needless to say, nowadays I only start Notepad++ accidentally on my machine.

There is also CudaText now, fitting somewhere between Notepad++ and VSCode <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Alexey-T&#x2F;CudaText" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Alexey-T&#x2F;CudaText</a>

One of the best light-weight editors for Windows devices. Textpad is the next best, probably.<p>The key feature for me is saving unsaved files when you close the editor. Notepad++ does it, Textpad doesn&#x27;t. For everything else, they are on par.

I was using Notepad++ as my primary code editor for python some years ago. It was working good (still does) but missing one crucial feature: Fuzzy file find. It would be great if Notepad++ could somehow detect a .git file in the same or a parent directory of the file I was editing and allowed me to quickly open files from this project by searching their filenames. Similar functionality to the Ctrl+P keyword in VSCode or the ctrlp plugin in Vim. I don&#x27;t know how difficult this is to implement but it will really improve the Notepad++ code editign expierience much more!

I have never seen an app get so many regular reliable updates as notepad++<p>Those devs are <i>machines</i>

Anyone here using N++ instead of an IDE for development?<p>Do you use vanilla N++ or have added some extensions?

when i started programing notepad++ was my go-to editor while sumatrapdf was my go-to pdf reader. today however i use emacs for everything except the browser and reading pdfs. i would still use sumatrapdf if it was available on gnu&#x2F;linux

I used Notepad++ for almost 10 years, just for viewing text files because of its right click context menu option and performance. but few weeks ago I decided to try sublime which is good but still notepad++ if faster. (sublime takes a few seconds more to load)

Used to use Notepad++ a lot, but these days I mostly use VS Code.<p>One of the things that really frustrates me about Notepad++ is the way it does updates, even though the app&#x27;s auto-updater initiated the installer, I still have to click through all the steps of the installer as if it&#x27;s the first time it&#x27;s being installed, quite tedious.<p>I would ideally like it to be done silently in the background, but I would still be very happy if after clicking a confirmation dialog in the app to do the update, the installer would just run unattended and re-launch the program automatically.

I stopped using Notepad++ a while back, switching to VSCode as it gained maturity.<p>Just curious, other than philosophical, why would a developer keep using Notepad++ today? What are its relative strengths?

Rarely do I see a mention of Ultraedit. Although it is a paid software, it was nice and polished as expected. However, I have very limited experience with it. Any thoughts?

Absolutely fantastic program. Would love a Linux equivalent.

When I was in college I used Notepad++ but now at work we are using VS Code and Visual Studio. Those days were gold :&#x27;)

Funny how I&#x27;ve drifted into using multiple text editors for different purposes over the years.<p>* Vim as default<p>* VSCode for Rust, the integration with Rust Analyzer is seamless. Semantic highlighting theme availability is also top notch<p>* Sublime Text for temporary or unsaved files and small file regex<p>* Notepad++ for huge file regex<p>Each in their right place (for my purposes anyway).

I always confuse Notepad++ with Notepad2.<p>Both nice, but I prefer Notepad2 on the rare occasion I land on windows and need to quickly download a proper editor to quickly edit something.<p>Occasionally I install ++ by accident and then go &quot;augh, I meant the other one&quot;.

jEdit,gEdit,Kate,Npp, and even nagware like sublimeText were rage just a decade or two back because of the huge plugin ecosystem and they were quick heavy lifters. Even the plugin authors were responsive using some heavy php&#x2F;java forums.<p>Hackathons and Competitive programming at CodeForces was a feast for us. We were timed and teamed. The setups were above editors or very simple IDEs like Zeus or Leo with almost zero additional cognitive burden. Some even used some esoteric inbuilt editor + FarManager + ConEmu because that is how they were developed for, it seems. It was as if their extended hand, one of them said. What?!!<p>Those were the days man!

Used UltraEdit for years but for a couple of years my economy has been so bad I could not pay for the updates so I tested N++ and found it started up so much faster and had pretty much everything I used in UE.

Can&#x27;t live without it. Now if only the Markdown heading outlines in the function list panel stopped breaking after every upgrade I&#x27;d have no complaints.

Oh boy that brings me memories. Been MacOS user now for about 8 years and completely forgotten about this gem. Glad they keeping it alive and well.

When we will have the version for MacOS or Linux?