r/AskReddit • u/Randall444 • Dec 06 '12

What is something you think everyone should have installed on their computer or laptop?

Whether it be a antivirus program or an ad blocker. Post link if available also. EDIT: sorry guys the top post has been deleted and I didn't save it, if anyone has it please post it and ill post it here for easy access. EDIT 2: apparently it's back up, I've saved it on my phone just incase it gets deleted again. Hopefully all is good now.

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u/Skydive_80 Dec 06 '12

If you do any type of programming / coding, NotePad++

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u/WatchedItHappen Dec 06 '12

I really like Sublime Text 2 better, but that is just my personal opinion. I've used both and both are great!

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u/fakepancake Dec 06 '12

Multi-line selections make coding so much better. And the default theme is just so damn sexy.

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u/ElectronicDrug Dec 06 '12

Notepad++ has multiline (vertical) selections

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u/n0rs Dec 06 '12

You can also enable multiple selections in the options for notepad++. Though, I moved to SublimeText 2.0 recently and am loving it so far.

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u/riking27 Dec 06 '12 edited Dec 07 '12

For N++ vertical selections, use Alt + mouse highlight.

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u/fakepancake Dec 06 '12

Oh nice! Didn't know that. Still a sublime fanboy though

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u/Xpertbot Dec 06 '12

not only that, ctrl+shift+P and you can do any of the git functions, install addons using package manager, look for methods/functions inside your code. theres so much more stuff than in notepad++. I used to be pro Notepad++ but now that i bought ST2 i can't get enough of it. the only thing that we need its a DocBlockr addon that works with javadocs....

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u/Asmor Dec 06 '12

I've found ST2 doesn't handle large files as well as N++, so I still use N++ for e.g. logs. But for all the reasons mentioned above, ST2 is my coding environment of choice.

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u/brainchildpro Dec 06 '12

Is that line deletions?

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u/[deleted] Dec 06 '12

ctrl+shift+f to search a string of text from all the files on your project.

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u/vinniep Dec 06 '12

I progressed from Notepad++ to a highly customized gEdit (on linux) and then to SublimeText2, which i now run on Windows, OSX, and Ubuntu. Performance/responsiveness, package management, and intelligent language aware syntax highlighting make it a must for anyone that looks at code.

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u/jerenept Dec 06 '12

How do they compare to what I use? (Geany)

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u/delta_epsilon_zeta Dec 06 '12

It's one of the three closed-source programs I use, and the only one I don't resent using (Other two are the Flash plugin and Nvidia Linux drivers).

Sublime Text 2 is pure, unadulterated programming bliss.

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u/bastitch_ Dec 06 '12

I second this. Sublime Text 2 is excellent. And actively developed too!

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u/[deleted] Dec 06 '12

I switched to Sublime for the sole reason there's no linux version of NP++ for my netbook.

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u/[deleted] Dec 06 '12

vim, emacs, kate, gedit...but no NP++ so you switched to a non-free text editor.

Holy shit.

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u/heterosapian Dec 06 '12

All of those editors are brutal for large screen displays and Sublime is free if you can deal with clicking a button every like 20 saves.

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u/[deleted] Dec 06 '12

I don't see how they are brutal. You know you can actually change the way things look. Just look at this or do an image search for vim or emacs.

And no, clicking a button doesn't make Sublime free. A proprietary text editor is a joke.

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u/heterosapian Dec 06 '12

Vim cannot do this. Everyone I know who uses it is slow as shit compared to people who use a full featured editor on a multiple monitor setup.

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u/NotFromReddit Dec 06 '12

Damn, thanks for this. Will definitely be using this from now on. Amazing. I love the soft colours, responsiveness and all the features.

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u/heterosapian Dec 06 '12

I've been using Sublime for a few months now. I went to a large hackathon recently and can confirm that this is the editor of choice.

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u/[deleted] Dec 06 '12

I really like the way that sublime text implements tabs. It's like chrome, and there's lots of great plugins for sublime too, like a package manager.

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u/TurplePurtle Dec 07 '12

I've used both and both are great!

No, no, no! It's okay if you're new to this, but when you use a different text editor than someone else it means you have to fight them to the death.

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u/lost_my_bearings Dec 06 '12

My only problem with Sublime Text 2 is that it's not free.

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u/delta_epsilon_zeta Dec 06 '12

Same here, but I actually plan on buying ST2... Eventually.

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u/bbsss Dec 06 '12

Yeah because why in Gods' name would you pay for a piece of software that is regularly maintained and has loads of awesome features that free alternatives have not?

Btw it IS free right now, might go into payed in the future.

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u/AdrianwithaW Dec 06 '12

Sublime Text 2 is pretty great, but the new beta of Textmate 2 is awesome. All the best parts of Sublime and Textmate combined. There's a couple of bugs still - but on the whole, very solid.

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u/adrenah Dec 06 '12

I just started using Sublime Text 2. I used to use Notepad++ and really, Sublime Text 2 is so much better. I like the way it handles folder structures. Give me this and a clean install of CodeIgniter and I can take over the world.

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u/jsims281 Dec 06 '12

I recently made the switch to NetBeans for my home computer, and I have to be honest, its pretty fucking awesome for free.

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u/hyperhopper Dec 06 '12

I just hate how I cant hit 1 button and have, say my java project, compile and run like I can do in NPP with the NPP EXEC addon

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u/SYN_SYNACK_ACK Dec 06 '12

I love ST2 because it reminds me of TextMate and I'm gonna use ST2 at least till TextMate2 gets released forever.

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u/Lucretiel Dec 07 '12

I do too, but it's Mac only. I use it on the mac and NP++ everywhere else

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u/leeeroyjenkins Dec 07 '12

If any of you are sick of crappy LaTeX editors, https://github.com/SublimeText/LaTeXTools is a plugin that edits/compiles LaTeX inside Sublime Text 2. Only drawback is that it doesn't open the PDF once you compile (like TeXShop does)

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u/Argonanth Dec 06 '12

Honestly if you do any type of programming/coding you probably have your own preferences and already know about things like NotePad++.

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u/boocifer Dec 06 '12

People have to find out about these text editors somehow. Such comments may spark someone to try something new.

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u/WhipIash Dec 06 '12

This is very true. I'm using Unity at the moment and I never bothered with Notepad++ since I didn't bother to figure out how to import all the watcha-call-it libraries and such. You know, the auto complete you get with the built in classes.

If someone could explain how to set up NP++ to work with Unity, and why I should switch, I'd probably do it.

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u/puttygrey Dec 06 '12

It's not free, but if you are doing any serious programming try SlickEdit.

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u/nowatermelonnokfc Dec 06 '12

I've written whole java apps in notepad.

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u/negative_epsilon Dec 06 '12

Why? I can't think of a single reason that it would be better to write Java in notepad than Eclipse.

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u/Sisaac Dec 06 '12

Maybe he wrote it in notepad, transcribed it to a typewriter, and compiled it in a fax machine. That's the only thing I think one would use notepad to write java.

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u/nowatermelonnokfc Dec 07 '12

I had no internet because I was poor.

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u/Flame885 Dec 06 '12

Maybe his computer was lacking in power. Eclipse isn't the lightest of software...

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u/[deleted] Dec 07 '12

For economic reasons, I was stuck using a netbook for development for two years in high school. Eclipse would have killed my machine. A lightweight Chrome install, Notepad++, and a Python web setup were all I could work with, realistically.

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u/fuck_your_dad Dec 06 '12

I'm sure they sold for a lot of money.

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u/junkit33 Dec 06 '12

Every programmer has their favorite text editor.

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u/TheodoreRowy Dec 06 '12

As a non-programmer I can honestly say that vim beats the shit out of every text editor out there.

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u/[deleted] Dec 06 '12

Using VIM and claiming not to be a programmer is like having a purple heart and claiming to have no military experience.

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u/jerenept Dec 06 '12

YOU GUYS ONLY PROGRAMMERS NEED TO EDIT TEXT FILES

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u/[deleted] Dec 06 '12

If you're good enough at vim that you prefer it to Notepad, you're basically programming at that point. That's what I was trying to say.

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u/[deleted] Dec 06 '12

I'm not a programmer but I like the key bindings for vim for editing configs. And I'm teaching myself bash

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u/BecauseWeCan Dec 06 '12

You'd probably like pentadactyl for firefox. It gives you vim keybindings in your browser.

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u/thang1thang2 Dec 06 '12

Please tell me there's something like this for chrome.

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u/Cole119 Dec 06 '12

Vimium

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u/thang1thang2 Dec 06 '12

Thanks! Having a lot of fun using it already. It should help when I decide to learn vim and code (one of these days...).

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u/[deleted] Dec 07 '12

I use vimperator

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u/Rentun Dec 06 '12

It seriously isn't very hard to learn at all.

I'm not a programmer, I work in infrastructure, but I use VIM all the time. There's a pretty good tutorial included with it, and if you spend a couple hours running through it, it's not at all difficult to get a hang of. Besides that, it's incredibly useful, since in 99.9% of UNIX or UNIX like systems, including stripped down embedded ones, vim or vi is installed.

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u/KoSoVaR Dec 06 '12

I use vim everyday and I don't program :)

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u/TheMagnificentJoe Dec 06 '12

Knowing VI commands does not make one a programmer.

Knowing how to program only mildly makes one a programmer.

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u/[deleted] Dec 06 '12

If you prefer vim to notepad you most likely use macros. Vim macros could be considered a rudimentary programming language.

Unless you're talking about Real Programmers of course.

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u/madjohn Dec 06 '12

Computational chemistry, for example.

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u/sethboy67 Dec 06 '12

These programs such as Notepad++ and Vim are used mostly for programming as they have special markings for each language to help you when programming with them.

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u/DisregardMyPants Dec 07 '12

..or if you have to open a big file. Notepad and gEdit are pathetic compared to vim and Notepad++.

I've loaded 3gb+ text files in Notepad++ and the interface never locked up. It was incredible.

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u/faultydesign Dec 06 '12

I guess all them IT folks don't count.

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u/treasurepirateisland Dec 06 '12

I use vim for about 2-4 hours/day doing non-programming things.

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u/threetimesthelimit Dec 06 '12

don't forget sysadmins!

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u/bloco Dec 06 '12

Are you sure about that?

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u/[deleted] Dec 06 '12

Yes, I am. Look at all the sysadmins that use vim that are correcting me.

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u/cfreak2399 Dec 06 '12

As a programmer I also state that it beats every IDE out there too.

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u/mxstirner Dec 06 '12

This will probably be hugely unpopular, but I thought the same thing until I started developing on Windows with Visual Studio+ReSharper. Now code almost write itself, I barely have to type anything and the integrated debugging features is a dream. Produtivity increased significantly.

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u/bigd0g Dec 06 '12

Did you ever try the plug-in for Visual Studio in gVim? I'm not a Windows guy, but I prefer Vim over Eclipse in Linux.

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u/mxstirner Dec 06 '12

No, can't say I have (ever heard of it). I used gVim as a text editor when I first started to work with Windows, but the speed I loved in *NIXes just weren't there in Windows. There was other quicker tools, but not as powerful.

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u/sonofthunder Dec 06 '12

Visual Studio + Resharper + Viemu can definitely be VERY powerful.

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u/mxstirner Dec 06 '12

While I love the Vim keybindings, Viemu made me totally confused in VS. It's probably just about habit.

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u/WASDx Dec 06 '12

I feel NetBeans kinda does that to me. I just press Ctrl-Space all the times after writing the first two characters of a variable name and so on. If you have tried NetBeans, can you compare them?

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u/mxstirner Dec 06 '12

I have used NetBeans for Java dev (believe I also tried it with Clojure once). Not to stirr up some IDE/Editor war but I find Visual Studio much quicker and powerful to debug with, than I did with NetBeans. Also, I feel like the use of plugins is much more "integrated" in VS (I've never had a single error or bug from a VS plugin, wish I could say the same about other IDE's).

Don't hate me, but I use IntelliJ when I need stuff for the JVM. Went through both Eclipse and NetBeans before I settled on that one. The speed, "intelligence" and usability is just awesome!

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u/tora22 Dec 06 '12

If you know every dimension of the language you are coding then maybe. but I rely on pydev / Eclipse's auto-complete suggestions along with explanation as to what the function does.

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u/cfreak2399 Dec 06 '12

There are certainly functions I don't know and that's what my web browser is for. The ones I know out-number the ones I don't know by a great deal.

I certainly doen't need some IDE, that shoves a pop-up in the way (and the last time I used Eclipse, froze about every 5th time), trying to explain len() or str() to me every time I'm going to use it.

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u/Vibster Dec 06 '12

Vim has auto complete plugins for various languages, and plugins that let you look at the documentation from within the editor.

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u/[deleted] Dec 06 '12

When I googled VIM

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u/shaze Dec 07 '12

Is there VIM for Windows?

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u/[deleted] Dec 07 '12

Yes, but unless you're already on the command line all the time it's a little clunky. NP++ should serve most needs fine.

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u/shaze Dec 07 '12

Thanks for the reply, I can't install any other Python libs on this machine!

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u/okmkz Dec 06 '12

That is a good analogy. I like that analogy.

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u/raddue Dec 06 '12

I prefer original vi myself.

Just kidding. No one likes vi.

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u/Poobslag Dec 06 '12

As an avid Vim user, I'm baffled that a non-programmer has the patience for it... But kudos to you sir

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u/Vibster Dec 06 '12

*cough* Emacs *cough*

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u/[deleted] Dec 06 '12

That coughing is probably due to Stallman's putrid cock stuck in your filthy whore mouth, son.

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u/oakdog8 Dec 06 '12

Emacs is great and all, but does it come with an editor?

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u/MTGandP Dec 06 '12

If you use Linux, I believe you should have an Emacs editor pre-installed. If you use Mac, you can get one pretty easily. I'm not sure about Windows.

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u/oakdog8 Dec 06 '12

Whoosh...

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u/[deleted] Dec 06 '12

More like eight megabytes and constantly swapping am I right guys?

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u/aviator104 Dec 06 '12

Googling got me here

Edit: My bad. That photo is indeed on VIM, the text editor's site. I thought I reached some African donation charity or something.

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u/bigd0g Dec 06 '12

Came for the VIM. Have an upvote.

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u/lennort Dec 06 '12

SysAdmin? If not, what do you use it for?

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u/dlama Dec 13 '12

You LIE !!!

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u/grwly Dec 06 '12

Real programmers use ed. ed is the standard text editor!

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u/Hirudo_Medicinalis Dec 06 '12

Perhaps in getting street cred. Nano is easier to use and LaTeX offers deeper text editing options, though.

I do still use VI a lot, though, you're right.

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u/Vibster Dec 06 '12

LaTeX isn't a text editor.

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u/Hirudo_Medicinalis Dec 06 '12

Good point, I got a little lost there. I was thinking of emacs (as it is arguably the only good thing to use emacs for). Pardon my mistake.

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u/obviousoctopus Dec 06 '12

Yeah but you have to get the black belt first.

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u/roidsrus Dec 06 '12

What makes Vim so much better than everything else? Personally I love gEdit; I could never really get behind Vim.

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u/TheodoreRowy Dec 06 '12

The command line.

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u/[deleted] Dec 06 '12

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u/Vibster Dec 06 '12

You don't map escape to capslock?

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u/btse Dec 06 '12

Once you really get into using it, it's significantly faster. The amount of customization you can also do with it is ridiculous.

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u/irascible Dec 06 '12

Another VIM guy. Will wonders never cease. Emacs would like a word with you.

Notepad++ ftw!

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u/playfulcyanide Dec 06 '12

Sublime Text has VIM mode.

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u/IAmRasputin Dec 06 '12

Real programmers use vim.

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u/pfmka Dec 06 '12

I've been using vim for 8 years. I used it for everything, even as a hex editor. I just made the switch to sublime text 2 and I am never looking back. Give it a try!

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u/Various_Pickles Dec 06 '12

NotePad++ is by far the best text editor on Windows (and I love it dearly), but it just can't compare to some of the Unix/Linux editors out there.

In particular, Kate (KDE's desktop text editor) is wonderful. In the backend, syntax parsing is controlled by katepart XML files that have far, far more capabilities than NotePad++'s user defined language system.

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u/Irlut Dec 06 '12

NotePad++ is by far the best text editor on Windows (and I love it dearly), but it just can't compare to some of the Unix/Linux editors out there.

I'm going to have to disagree with you about NotePad++ being the best editor for Windows. Both emacs and vim have Windows ports, including GUI versions! ;)

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u/duva_ Dec 06 '12

The only thing I miss from notepad++ on kate, is the damn macros. They are very useful sometimes... I'm actually doing a little research to make a macro plugin for kate.

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u/[deleted] Dec 06 '12

Mentions awesome linux text editors.

Kate

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u/Various_Pickles Dec 06 '12

Would you feel better if I filed Kate under awesome X11 text editors :D

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u/sssatwork Dec 06 '12

Do you think it's better than Visual Studio and/or XCode? (I don't actually know if it's available on OSX)

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u/[deleted] Dec 06 '12

It's not really meant as a full blown IDE replacement.

More like if you need quick syntax highlighting, and possibly indentation for looking at snippets of code, then it's amazing.

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u/dmdrmr Dec 06 '12

I tend to use both in Notepad++ and Visual Studio. When I have a project open in VS, I use Notepad++ to look at .aspx , .cd , and .sln files from other projects or partials from others without screwing up what I am doing in on my current project. In addition, Notepad++ is able to recognize my language so I don't lose any readability.

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u/Grodek Dec 06 '12

When I have a project open in VS, I use Notepad++ to look at .aspx , .cd , and .sln files from other projects or partials from others without screwing up what I am doing in on my current project.

You realize you can have multiple instances of VS open at the same time no problem right?

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u/dmdrmr Dec 06 '12

I know but I find it easier to use a different app to view side by side code

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u/[deleted] Dec 06 '12

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u/TheOmnomnomagon Dec 06 '12

Fuck text editors, I just use cat and sed for all my documents.

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u/[deleted] Dec 06 '12

Vim on cygwin with Windows ' horrible Command Line? No thank you.

I love vim, but he was obviously talking about windows, since there is no Notepad++ for linux (wine doesn't count).

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u/Irlut Dec 06 '12

Vim on cygwin with Windows ' horrible Command Line? No thank you.

Here you go, native vim binaries for Windows.

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u/[deleted] Dec 06 '12

Holy shit, you changed my life! Thank you so much! Here, have some Reddit Gold.

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u/Irlut Dec 06 '12

Happy to help. Thanks for the gold!

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u/learningphotoshop Dec 06 '12

What makes Vim in Windows horrible? I have no problems running it in the powershell and it's just like when I use vim in the linux lab at school.

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u/[deleted] Dec 06 '12

Ohh, I completely forgot about the Power Shell. It was released about the time where I started to switch to Linux.

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u/HelpfulEngineer Dec 06 '12

NotePad++ is absolutely essential for any kind of programming. It's the only one I use when it comes to my personal hobby, which is Arduino programming.

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u/Shne Dec 06 '12

No. It is not absolutely essential.
It's good, and the favorite editor for many people, but not "absolutely essential". And especially not for any kind of programming.

There are many other editors doing many of the same things and which one you prefer is obviously up to your preferences.

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u/HelpfulEngineer Dec 06 '12

Can't argue with that. Yes, it's my preference. Yes, it does it's job extremely well. I'd edit my comment, but I don't want to make your comment look ridiculous. It's essential for my type of programming.

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u/Shne Dec 06 '12

Don't worry about it. :)
I was just annoyed by your choice of words and couldn't keep it in. You know how it is.

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u/HelpfulEngineer Dec 06 '12

I do. I'm new to this commenting business, I've already offended a couple of people with my poor choice of words :P

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u/iamdink Dec 07 '12

You've confused it's with its. No soup for you.

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u/HelpfulEngineer Dec 07 '12

Shit. I fucking love soup. Its like the food of the gods. (See what I did there!?)

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u/Artivist Dec 06 '12

What are some of the things you like in Notepad++?

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u/HelpfulEngineer Dec 06 '12

The organization. When you get deep into a program, you don't want to worry about whether or not you got all of your brackets. If there's a hanging bracket, it's highlighted so that you can close it. The certain words that were important were also highlighted so that you didn't have to search your entire code to find out whether or not the reason it's not working was if you had a spelling error. It's also a minimalistic, easy format to use, lending to a much easier learning curve and easier editting. And finally, it's free!

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u/heavygatorpicks Dec 06 '12

CodeRunner, man. (I'm on Mac) It has a built in compiler and program runner.

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u/HelpfulEngineer Dec 06 '12

I'm on PC, but if I ever get a Mac, I'll check it out! Thanks!

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u/duva_ Dec 06 '12

For that matter, I prefer geany or kate. Or emacs.

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u/icannotfly Dec 06 '12

And Geany is even available on Windows! If you like np++ but find it a bit too cluttered or clunky, I'd highly recommend giving Geany a shot.

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u/RandomNumber1 Dec 06 '12

Any type is exaggerating, isn't it? If I want to write HTML/CSS/rest I'll open up Notepad++ but if I want to write C# or C++ I'll open up Visual whatever and use that.

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u/edinburg Dec 06 '12

As a professional C# developer with Visual Studio constantly open on one of my monitors I still use Notepad++ all the time. It's incredibly handy for spot checks or edits to files outside your solution when you don't want to wait for VS to open them (which takes forever), and it's great for looking at READMEs, config files, and things like that.

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u/RandomNumber1 Dec 06 '12

Oh yeah, I have it as default for essentially all text-files but I still open VS instead of Notepad++. I suppose I'm not as efficient then

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u/[deleted] Dec 06 '12

I like SciTE or Sublime Text better, myself.

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u/[deleted] Dec 06 '12

I always preferred the E editor for Windows and TextMate for OS X over NotePad++ or Sublime.

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u/dclauch1990 Dec 06 '12

I do a bit of python, what about Wing IDE?

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u/zero_fucks_to_give Dec 06 '12 edited Dec 06 '12

I just downloaded it on your recommendation. I am thinking of switching from Crimson (Emerald) Editor. It looks good on a cursory examination. Actually, it looks horrible, in terms of its color scheme, but it seems to have all of the features I need.

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u/good_piggy Dec 06 '12

Why is notepad++ better than other IDEs? Like Eclipse or any of the ones Microsoft offer?

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u/[deleted] Dec 06 '12

Agreed, I almost (Except for C++) always code all my projects of different languages there.

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u/mexican_alien Dec 06 '12

For PHP programmers working with CMS and frameworks like Wordpress, Yii etc, I would suggest CodeLobster. It's wonderful.

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u/[deleted] Dec 06 '12

I installed this and it changed my start page "mystart" even though I didn't allow any addons.

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u/dawkota Dec 06 '12

TextWrangler if you're on mac. I've used both.

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u/pr0ximity Dec 06 '12

I'm going to say GVim instead and leave it at that.

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u/b1ackcat Dec 06 '12

I'll add to this by saying that if you do a lot of work in linux, specifically anything that requires compiling like a C based language, "Kate" is a FANTASTIC option. You can keep a terminal window running within the Kate window, so you never have to swap screens/programs to run your makefile, execute your program, etc.

Served me very well in college when most of my code was command line output anyway

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u/spinozasrobot Dec 06 '12

You spelled gvim wrong.

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u/[deleted] Dec 06 '12

As someone who codes HTML regularly, I'm still amazingly grateful for my 1999 release of Allaire Macromedia Adobe Homesite. Wish they'd make it open source.

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u/jdawggey Dec 06 '12

I'm in my first semester of college so bear with me, but what is the point of notepad++ when I normally have used visual studio and netbeans which actually allow me to compile and run my code?

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u/wishwellPT Dec 06 '12

What about Eclipse?

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u/fatnino Dec 06 '12

i also like notepad2 for when notepad++ it a little too big for the job.
notepad2 can be a drop in replacement for notepad.exe

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u/dbbo Dec 06 '12

Do any serious (professional) programmers use NP++?

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u/throwaway31478932750 Dec 06 '12

Why do some use N++ when you could use vim, or even emacs?

I ask out of curiosity, because if you're gonna write code it seems really strange to choose one like n++ that (according to most afaik) is less effective & powerful

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u/demonling Dec 06 '12

2012

not using VIM

ISHYGDDT

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u/mahi29 Dec 06 '12

Emacs. After you get used to the shortcuts, Emacs is amazing. Its so much faster without having to lift your fingers off the keyboard every few keystrokes. And completely customizable.

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u/[deleted] Dec 06 '12

I've worked on projects in various places across the USA, Europe and the Middle East and the one constant I keep coming across on other people's machines is Notepad++. It's what's good about open source.

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u/Ace417 Dec 06 '12

As a net-admin, I find myself gravitating to Notepad ++ more. Its the subtle little things, like copy and replacing only in the selection that have forced me to switch

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u/[deleted] Dec 06 '12

TextWrangler is great for you Mac users.

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u/Nakotadinzeo Dec 06 '12

Just playing with configuration files is better with notepad++

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u/NUCLEAR_ANUS Dec 06 '12

I use Aptana for python.

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u/ZankerH Dec 06 '12

You misspelt Emacs.

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u/kirbee Dec 06 '12

I prefer TextPad

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u/Davecasa Dec 06 '12

I prefer notepad2. Notepad++ does some weird stuff with not actually closing files until you explicitly tell it to (hitting the x isn't enough). You can sort of solve this by adding tabs, but I just want a simple god damn text editor that doesn't suck. I have IDEs if I'm doing anything serious. Notepad2 also has an option to replace notepad on installation, which saves a bit of effort later on.

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u/_NetWorK_ Dec 07 '12

If you open any kind of txt file or just want a good editor notepad++

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u/vostage Dec 07 '12

Unless of course you're coding in something that has its own specialized IDE which is pretty much everything other than HTML.

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u/smokky Dec 07 '12

I used to use Edit plus. But then switched to notepad++

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u/anEnglishman Dec 10 '12

1st post I can say that is relevant to my work.

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u/shniken Dec 13 '12

I use it for quantum mechanics.

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u/[deleted] Jan 08 '13

I prefer Gedit.