Yeah Vim has a very steep learning curve, which it makes no apologies about. If you invest in learning it, you get a full fledged IDE that can run on any number of systems, but if you already have an editor you like it might not be worth the effort. Personally I use vscode with the vim key bindings because navigating the vim plugin ecosystem was too much for me.
Ok, so this is really elitist of me, but vim is where it's at. Or emacs. I actually use an unholy combo of both (spacemacs) and I love it. It makes LaTeX so easy! And org-mode is life.
Atom if you're using Notepad++ for code. Open source, has great support/plugins. If you're using a text-editor solely for writing documents, though, I suppose something else would probably be better - but Atom does support markdown and using it for plain text isn't horrible.
Then atom is the editor for you. Personally I couldn't get past the fact that it looks more like some HTML webpage I'm coding instead of a block of text/paper/short story unless you use a split pane to have the markdown preview constantly showing.
Sublime Text is pretty good, but it's the farthest thing from free, neither like freedom nor like free beer. Although I think it's like winrar in that the trial period is indefinite but you should pay if using it professionally. This is assuming you're looking for a direct N++ replacement, i.e. that it does syntax highlighting and tab completion for a number of different languages.
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vim, emacs
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Yeah Vim has a very steep learning curve, which it makes no apologies about. If you invest in learning it, you get a full fledged IDE that can run on any number of systems, but if you already have an editor you like it might not be worth the effort. Personally I use vscode with the vim key bindings because navigating the vim plugin ecosystem was too much for me.
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I can’t stand vsvim specifically because it’s an inaccurate vim emulator. So I just use emacs and evil. It does what I need.
I've used all 3 and I prefer N++
Don’t admit that online unless you want programmers to harass you all day long.
https://vscodium.com is the FOSS version of VS Code, which is better than brackets/atom
Ok, so this is really elitist of me, but vim is where it's at. Or emacs. I actually use an unholy combo of both (spacemacs) and I love it. It makes LaTeX so easy! And org-mode is life.
Atom if you're using Notepad++ for code. Open source, has great support/plugins. If you're using a text-editor solely for writing documents, though, I suppose something else would probably be better - but Atom does support markdown and using it for plain text isn't horrible.
idk, i tend to like a quick lightweight notepad-esque thing for quick edits when i think of them. basic regex and markdown obviously
Then atom is the editor for you. Personally I couldn't get past the fact that it looks more like some HTML webpage I'm coding instead of a block of text/paper/short story unless you use a split pane to have the markdown preview constantly showing.
Kate is a pretty great editor with a similar set of features. I use it on Linux, but it has a Windows version. Dunno how weird it is in windows.
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Brackets is alright for the most part, but it's by Adobe...
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Sublime Text is pretty good, but it's the farthest thing from free, neither like freedom nor like free beer. Although I think it's like winrar in that the trial period is indefinite but you should pay if using it professionally. This is assuming you're looking for a direct N++ replacement, i.e. that it does syntax highlighting and tab completion for a number of different languages.
sublime text is winrar-free
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ah, got ya