Alternatives to Notepad++? Is SciTE good?
>>51390876
Just keep using notepad++?
>>51390888
But it's shit
>>51390993
just use stock ms notpad it's the best anyways
>>51391125
This
Evilmode
>>51391125
>GTK on windows
>>51392232
Cygwin is pretty much gnu+windows. You could get it running. Or you could dual-boot/VM
kate
>>51390876
Sublime :^)
>>51390993
how and why?
notepad++ is ace
>>51390876
sublime to be perfectly honest family
>>51390876
>inb4 all the vimfags thinking this is their moment to shine
>>51390876
Atom
>>51390876
notepad2 my man
>>51393605
What is wrong with you?
>>51391125
Emacs keybinds make literally no sense. I know vim is guilty of this too (hjkl) but with emacs it's just crazy. At least with vim's hjkl they're in order, with emacs everything is just all over the keyboard.
>>51392232
windows emacs uses gtk?
>>51393786
Not him, but what's wrong with Atom ?
>>51393953
This. If Emacs had key bindings that were reasonable, I'd probably use it as opposed to vim.
Does notepad++ support java?
>>51390993
It is a text editor mate.
Despite what autists on /g/ will have you believe, they are all the same.
>>51394008
Nothing
It's a meme
>>51394193
If you want a feature light and easy to use IDE for java, I'd suggest drjava.
>>51394267
thanks mate. trying it right now
but why does it need internet access?
>>51394008
Try opening anything bigger than a 30mb file, it will lag like crazy, and eventually crash. On windows you can't even choose the install directory. Devs are hipster to the max. Sublime 2 is free, and so is 3 if you know what you are doing.
>>51394193
Go for eclipse, its an IDE, you wont need to get out the command prompt to compile and run your code while you make small changes and tweaks.
>>51394008
It's a pretty good web browser, but it could use a better text editor.
>>51394387
Yep, you are right. it lags and eventually crashes on files larger than 30mb... a pitty. Thanks for the tip, tho!
If you're doing Java just use an ide, i like eclipse. I disliked netbeans when i tried it. If intelij is similar to Android Studio i'm pretty sure i'll hate it.
For web stuff (Php, Js, Html and especially Css) i use brackets.
A partner uses sublime text 2 and it's pretty similar , but brackets is newer and open source so i favor it.
I heard brackets is bad for large files but i can jump into sublime if the need arises since almost the same plugins are available for both.
As long as it has Emmet i can work on it , notepad++ is ok too, just worse than ST or Brackets.
There is other editors than notepad++, sublime and atom.
Something like gedit, kate, emacs or vim are all better choices and depending what you want in an editor they can provide that and will never pop up with a beggar sign or crash on you for opening a 30mb log file.
>>51394899
>>51394588
>>51394387
It's a text editor, files of 30mb shouldn't be text. At 100 characters per line it's 300.000 lines of code in one file.
>>51393953
>Emacs keybinds make literally no sense
see pic
>I know vim is guilty of this too (hjkl)
how come keeping your right hand at the keyboard is a bad thing? I'm not sure you really understand why we use those keys
>>51394015
>If Emacs had key bindings that were reasonable, I'd probably use it as opposed to vim.
try Evil or even Spacemacs
>>51395150
Its almost like you've never coded something on a professional level. Not everyone is making shitty JavaScripts using some hipster framework.
>>51394387
>opening a 30 mb file that is just text
>why
>>51395688
> More than 300, 000 lines of code in a file
> Professional coding
Wat
>>51393953
>Emacs keybinds make literally no sense. I know vim is guilty of this too (hjkl) but with emacs it's just crazy. At least with vim's hjkl they're in order, with emacs everything is just all over the keyboard
f - forward one character
b - backwards 1 character
n - next line
p - previous line
Combine with C/M as necessary.
You must be literally retarded.
>>51391125
>>51396182
Who is this semen demon?
EmEditor
>>51390876
Notepad++
>>51393624
This, but use XhmikosR's fork. It's got a couple more useful features, all the language highlighters of the various forks, and seems to be actively developed.
https://xhmikosr.github.io/notepad2-mod/
>>51396182
At least Vi (vim actually uses arrow keys) puts all that shit next to eachother. Emacs thinks it's somehow clever to spread them all over in the name of verbosity.
>>51390876
gVim, nucka.
>>51390876
Geany
>>51390876
Atom or Sublime
Vim if you like to fuck with bullshit config
Emacs if you like the idea of early onset arthritis
Why doesn't /g/ like Code::Blocks?
>>51396312
Attentionwhore from Lainchan, Lainchan niggers love her because the people on that site are subhuman
>>51396182
>having to use two hands to navigate
Yeah, nah
>>51397992
lainchan users are so beta they'd encourage a 5/10 attention whore
kek glad the site shut down
>>51390876
Acme SAC
sam from 9pm
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>>51398052
>muh hipster obscure editors no one has ever heard of
pic unrelated honestly
Best to worst, for me:
Atom -> Vim -> Sublime
This is only because I have a beefy laptop and desktop. Atom has major performance issues and is slow as shit for startup and loading large files if you don't have modern hardware. But other than the performance issues, it is the superior editor.
Way better package ecosystem and community, way more extensible, way more active development, plus free and open source unlike Sublime. Try it out, and if you have performance issues, wait a year or so for them to improve it some more. I've used Sublime from like 2010 to 2015, and at first I didn't want to switch, but Atom is going to overtake it whether people like it or not.
I still use vim for most of my work, but using Atom + vim-mode gives me the best of all worlds.
If you don't care about plugins at all, then it doesn't matter if you choose Atom or Sublime. If you care about plugins a lot, then vim or neovim is arguably the best.
>>51398126
0/10
>>51398126
Why did they choose to make a text editor using a web browser honestly?
>>51398126
I want to use sublime but the fact that it's paid really turns me off.
>>51398126
>Using a web browser as your IDE
kek
Use vim or emacs.
>>51398126
>Atom has major performance issues and is slow as shit for startup and loading large files if you don't have modern hardware. But other than the performance issues, it is the superior editor.
The very fact that it stutters on my 2012-era i5 laptop forces me to never use Atom. Seriously, not even Javascript should run this fucking horribly. I don't care about muh features or muh integration, if you need to install the node.js runtime just to FUCKING EDIT A TEXT FILE then you are a fucking dipshit programmer, stupider than any H-1B codemonkey.
>>51398185
The idea was extensibility. A ton of people know Javascript/Coffeescript or whatever, and a ton of those people also care about mundane-ish things like silly plugins for text editors, so the end result is a fuckton of people writing plugins. The Javascript API for writing plugins is really nice, much better than Sublime's Python plugin API. Check out https://atom.io/packages. There are almost as many plugins as Sublime already, and it's been alive for only a fraction of Sublime's existence. I also feel like the quality of the plugins is better.
It's definitely much less memory and CPU efficient by being an entire browser. On my 2013 Macbook Air, I get no sluggishness from regular usage using the latest version of Atom. The only things that are slow are large files, and about a 3-5 second delay on startup. I use less, vim, or Sublime to work with huge files.
>>51398308
You don't need to install any runtimes separately, it's all packaged into the binary. I agree it sounds like a retarded idea for a text editor, but in practice it works out due to all the hipster Javascript monkeys out there, IMO.
I was skeptical at first, but performance is improving a lot each year. I suspect within 3 years, it will have performance parity with Sublime (especially considering hardware advances), but be way better in terms of features and plugins.
>>51390993
What exactly do you dislike? If you don't like the aesthetic, all the editors which look good suck complete cock in every other way.
>>51398126
Seeing posts like this make me wonder. What does Atom or Sublime do that Notepad++ can't?
>>51398409
>You don't need to install any runtimes separately, it's all packaged into the binary.
Then they must've finally fixed that, because when I tried it last summer it actually installed the whole thing as a standalone program.
>>51398429
>What does Atom or Sublime do that Notepad++ can't?
If you don't care about plugins or themes/styling or pretty UIs, then absolutely nothing. Out of the box, you're mostly going to get the same features from all 3.
>>51398433
>whole thing as a standalone program
Clarification: As in the whole of node.js standalone, and then Atom alongside.
>>51398103
Popularity means absolutely nothing when it comes to tools. If they're adventurous, people just stick with what they find most productive. For me, that's Acme.
>>51398224
I honestly can't understand why anyone would pay or use a closed source text editor when there's so many others out there. Vim, emacs, nano, or atom just to name a few.
>>51398452
What features would you gain with plugins? I'm just a CS student learning C++, so I'd be willing to switch if something else is better.
>>51397992
Doesn't she have a Twitter account?
>>51398683
Look at some plugins and see if you think you'd find them useful. I don't really have better advice for you than that. Start with the most popular ones.
>>51396664
Nice for really big files, like sql dumps.
>>51398486
but textwrangler is free (gratis)
>>51398478
>>51398052
Stay dead Uriel.
>>51395688
>professional
>main.cs
Kek
>>51390876
Emacs
>>51393953
>I know vim is guilty of this too (hjkl)
Those were literally the official arrow keys on the original terminal vi was written on: the ADM-3a. It also had ~ and Home on the same key, which is why Unix uses ~ as shorthand for your home directory.
>>51393953
You're not expected to use vanilla Emacs, it's so customizable so you can customize it.
>>51395232
hjkl controls are a relic of keyboards lacking arrow keys.
>>51396182
Those glasses make me very angry for some reason
>>51400935
His body may be dead but his ideas will live forever.
>>51391053
Don't fall for this bait
I use Notepad++ on Windows and Atom on Linux.
Works just fine for webdev.
I use Netbeans for projects and if I need to make a quick edit on the fly, notepad++.
>>51402543
php?
Are there any editors that support EVERY language? I don't want to download 1000 different IDEs and editors just to test things out.
>>51402961
Emacs
>>51402911
Primarily yes.
>>51393953
i rather learn to play the piano than emacs.
>>51402961
atom
Install gentoo.
>>51402961
Atm i'm writing a java web app and i'm using Eclipse to write the servlets and html and js on brackets.
Why in the name of fuck would i write a servlet in brackets , ST or notepad++ , also why would i write html or js on eclipse.
Different cases , different tools.
If you feel it's cluttered you're probably using windows 7 or something , start using a multi-desktop enviroment (W10 or any linux DE)
>>51390876
"hey guys, I got gold for free but I want something worse"
>>51402961
Vim and Emacs.
Downloaded Atom and installed it.
Motherfuckers lags for no reason and stutters like crazy. I even have 16GB of RAM, a 4790K and a 980 Ti.
Use gvim OP. It's breddy gud on windows. I've been using neovim on loonix, tho, I think there's also a functional build for it atm:
https://github.com/neovim/neovim/wiki/Installing-Neovim
>>51401649
>arrow keys
>literally wanting to move your right hand so much just to move around text
jej
>>51390876
Atom if you aren't a huge fucking faggot
Sublime is good too (better performance, but closed source, worse addons, worse ui, more of a pain to configure)
basically atom unless you have a toaster pc
http://www.atom.io
>>51405256
wat
what the fuck kinda text are you editing where it stutters?
are you using beta build?
>>51405256
>>51405433
Atom is the biggest meme editor.
> open large sql script
> atom crashes
> try to print
> mfw when there is no print
I use sublime text because there is a plugin for unreal script (LOL)
that I'm still using.
if Atom had it I would actually give it a try.
>>51390876
>Is SciTE good?
No, it's just a throwaway test for scintilla.
>>51390993
Git gud faoggot
>>51405494
>printing large sql scripts
>printing any code at all
baka desu senpai
>>51401605
I know this, it's just confusing if you're under 40 years old and never used one of those keyboards.
What do you think of KomodoEdit, senpai
