Technology

63134 readers

3251 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

Follow the lemmy.world rules.
Only tech related content.
Be excellent to each other!
Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
Politics threads may be removed.
No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

328

submitted 16 hours ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

142 comments fedilink hide all child comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] -5 points 15 hours ago (17 children)

Is it though? I still always open notepad for random text stuff. What is better in ++?

[–] [email protected] 34 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (9 children)

Keeps your progress if you exit without saving
Supports tabs so you don't have 5 separate notepad windows open
syntax highlighting for programming languages and markdown format
plugin support
can handle extremely large text files (I've opened 50gb text files and used ctrl+f to find terms and it worked fine)
superb tools for manipulating text (e.g., use reg expressions). Super easy and flexible in making mass edits.
dark mode support. That alone makes it superior lol

If you just need a quick window open to make a note you might actually prefer Sticky Notes over Notepad!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 14 hours ago (3 children)

A few of those features are available on Notepad as well, just FYI.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Out if curiosity, which ones? Because I don't see any of those features and am on W11...