It’s lightweight, can run portably, and has some oddly specific but useful features such as dual window linked scrolling, syntax highlighting, and even allows regex for search/replace which is neat.
You can use it for coding (I use it for short python scripts), but that isn’t it’s main use.
VScode is, primarily, an IDE - not really something you use as a plain text editor.
I use Notepad++ for coding daily. I’m not a fan of things like autocomplete, and the times I need to look up a definition, the search is fast enough to make up for a lack of indexing. And the regex implementation is great.
I’m still looking for a Linux replacement with syntax highlighting like Notepad++. Kate is good, even better performance, but no UI for highlighting. The coding for syntax is way over my head from what I saw.
Looks like it’s actually available by default. The json thing is for the language server which does linting and autocomplete.
To activate syntax highlighting just select the language of your choice by pressing the language name on the very bottom right corner of the window and choose the correct language.
I’ve recently switched from np++ to Sublime for some non-standard issues – I would say that could be closer in performance & extensibility to Vim/Emacs; though limited to GUI and non-FOSS of course.
Notepad++ is, at its heart, a text editor.
It’s lightweight, can run portably, and has some oddly specific but useful features such as dual window linked scrolling, syntax highlighting, and even allows regex for search/replace which is neat.
You can use it for coding (I use it for short python scripts), but that isn’t it’s main use.
VScode is, primarily, an IDE - not really something you use as a plain text editor.
I use Notepad++ for coding daily. I’m not a fan of things like autocomplete, and the times I need to look up a definition, the search is fast enough to make up for a lack of indexing. And the regex implementation is great.
I’m still looking for a Linux replacement with syntax highlighting like Notepad++. Kate is good, even better performance, but no UI for highlighting. The coding for syntax is way over my head from what I saw.
Kate does have syntax highlighting. You have to configure it once in a JSON and that’s it.
I have no clue where to start with that.
Looks like it’s actually available by default. The json thing is for the language server which does linting and autocomplete.
To activate syntax highlighting just select the language of your choice by pressing the language name on the very bottom right corner of the window and choose the correct language.
I’ve recently switched from np++ to Sublime for some non-standard issues – I would say that could be closer in performance & extensibility to Vim/Emacs; though limited to GUI and non-FOSS of course.