• grandel
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    91 year ago

    I’ve switched from NPP years ago. Can somebody please explain why it’s so popular?

    • @tiita@lemmy.world
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      51 year ago

      It’s

      Free Updated very regularly It has awesome plugins Themes Fantastic search / replace capabilities Support the formatting of a lot of languages Very light weight Keeps open all those files forever and ever

      It’s just very good…

      Think of it as the vlc of txt files

    • m-p{3}
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      51 year ago

      It’s snappier and more private than VSCode at the very least.

      • Azzy
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        31 year ago

        idk why people don’t just use codium instead

        • @IrritableOcelot@beehaw.org
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          21 year ago

          Because of the snappiness – codium is no faster than code. For me, NPP is used for making single-word changes to a bunch of files in a row–like vim, but a GUI.