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Notepad++ v8.6: 20th-Year Anniversary

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Notepad++ 20th-Year Anniversary

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Notepad++ is awesome! kudos to the developer, one of those must have replacements on windows 😉👍
- Multi-edit is huge. It's literally THE reason why I use sublime text from time to time.
  I frequently copy text from NP++ to sublime. do a multi edit, then copy it back over multiple times a day.
  
  Genuine question, why use both Sublime and NP++?

I have 200 unsaved notes just waiting in the memory guillotine for when something accidentally wipes them. I salute you, Notepad++.
- It's so bad but so good. It's like a poweruser variation of keeping important stuff in the recycle bin.
  
  White knuckle, tightrope note taking. I just do it for the rush.
  
  My physical notepads aren't much better, every page is a new context, and despite my best efforts they don't seem to be in chronological order.
  Todays notes are on top but everything older is "somewhere".
- I've restored my N++ session of unsaved notes from backup more than once.

NPP is indispensable, it is the Windows killer-app.
Congrats on the release!

Congratulations to everyone involved! I don't use Windows anymore, but when I did, NPP was one of the first things to get installed. Super useful.
- Same. I wonder if they'll create a Linux port at some point (GTK themes?), because there just isn't anything quite like it.
  
  Look up notepadqq, these guys are doing a Qt port. But you can also use Kate or VSCodium, these are pretty similar if not better.

I've switched from NPP years ago. Can somebody please explain why it's so popular?
- 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
- It's snappier and more private than VSCode at the very least.
  
  idk why people don’t just use codium instead

Long live notepad++, 🎉🎉🎉

Still the best, can't believe it's been 20 years.

I used Crimson Editor before I found Notepad++ and I can't believe it's been that long. Cheers to 20 years!

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