Why developers like Notepad++

What is Notepad++?

Notepad++ is a free (as in "free speech" and also as in "free beer") source code editor and Notepad replacement that supports several languages. Running in the MS Windows environment, its use is governed by GPL License.

Notepad++ is a tool in the Text Editor category of a tech stack.

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Who uses Notepad++?

Companies

285 companies reportedly use Notepad++ in their tech stacks, including Implisit, Adsia, and Jitbit.

Developers

3541 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Notepad++.

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Why developers like Notepad++?

Here’s a list of reasons why companies and developers use Notepad++

Top Reasons

Syntax for all languages that i use

Regex & Special Character Search & Replace

Fast startup

Application is free, and plugins are too

Nice gui. are you kidding me?

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Notepad++ Reviews

Here are some stack decisions, common use cases and reviews by companies and developers who chose Notepad++ in their tech stack.

Gustavo Muñoz

Web UI Developer at Globant · 6 months ago | 3 upvotes · 32.9K views

Visual Studio Code

Atom

Sublime Text

Vim

Notepad++

React

Flutter

TypeScript

#RESTfulAPI

#Microsoft

I have chosen Visual Studio Code after testing a lot of other editors like Atom, Sublime Text (with legal license), Vim or even Notepad++ because it is the sum of all their virtues and none of their defects. It's fast, it has all the tools and plugins I need to work, and it's pretty and very good optimized. It has what I need to work and nothing more. And the main plugins works like a charm. Developing for React or Flutter is amazing. Even the TypeScript plugin works great. I like how IntelliSense works, and all the extra tools to code remotely using #ssh, access #RESTfulAPI or event manage projects or collaborating remotely. Thanks #Microsoft for Visual Studio Code.

Daniel Kovacs

Agile Coach, Architect and Team Lead at Self-employed · a year ago | 1 upvotes · 3.4K views

Notepad++

When some regex or hardly scriptable but pattern-type problem occurs, I always go to notepad++. Also nice for file inspection (like image-meta). Notepad++

Ana Phi Sancho

at Multimedia and Software · a year ago | 1 upvotes · 3.4K views

Notepad++

Development Tool code editor - Open Source: Supports a wide selection of programming languages( C/C++, C#, Java, PHP, Python, or .NET.) Notepad++

Utkarsh Mehta

Senior Blockchain Developer · 4 months ago | 1 upvotes · 2.3K views

Notepad++

I use Notepad++ because i was working on windows. ;-)

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Notepad++'s Features

Syntax Highlighting and Syntax Folding
User Defined Syntax Highlighting and Folding: screenshot 1, screenshot 2, screenshot 3 and screenshot 4
PCRE (Perl Compatible Regular Expression) Search/Replace
GUI entirely customizable: minimalist, tab with close button, multi-line tab, vertical tab and vertical document list
Document Map
Auto-completion: Word completion, Function completion and Function parameters hint
Multi-Document (Tab interface)
Multi-View
WYSIWYG (Printing)
Zoom in and zoom out
Multi-Language environment supported
Bookmark
Macro recording and playback
Launch with different arguments

Notepad++ Alternatives & Comparisons

What are some alternatives to Notepad++?

Sublime Text

Sublime Text is available for OS X, Windows and Linux. One license is all you need to use Sublime Text on every computer you own, no matter what operating system it uses. Sublime Text uses a custom UI toolkit, optimized for speed and beauty, while taking advantage of native functionality on each platform.

Visual Studio Code

Build and debug modern web and cloud applications. Code is free and available on your favorite platform - Linux, Mac OSX, and Windows.

Vim

Vim is an advanced text editor that seeks to provide the power of the de-facto Unix editor 'Vi', with a more complete feature set. Vim is a highly configurable text editor built to enable efficient text editing. It is an improved version of the vi editor distributed with most UNIX systems. Vim is distributed free as charityware.

Atom

At GitHub, we're building the text editor we've always wanted. A tool you can customize to do anything, but also use productively on the first day without ever touching a config file. Atom is modern, approachable, and hackable to the core. We can't wait to see what you build with it.

Emacs

GNU Emacs is an extensible, customizable text editor—and more. At its core is an interpreter for Emacs Lisp, a dialect of the Lisp programming language with extensions to support text editing.

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