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[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I've switched from NPP years ago. Can somebody please explain why it's so popular?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It's snappier and more private than VSCode at the very least.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

idk why people don’t just use codium instead

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Because of the snappiness -- codium is no faster than code. For me, NPP is used for making single-word changes to a bunch of files in a row--like vim, but a GUI.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

It's

Free Updated very regularly It has awesome plugins Themes Fantastic search / replace capabilities Support the formatting of a lot of languages Very light weight Keeps open all those files forever and ever

It's just very good..

Think of it as the vlc of txt files