DebianGuy

Agree on all counts about Notepad++ “oldness”

• slower when we have 100 files open
• clunky
• rigid
• old GUI paradigms ( settings modal, find modal etc)
• inflexible and less customizable UI chrome area

Few things I like about Notepad++ enough to actually keep on using it on work workstations:

• Plugins ecosystem. I am too entrenched into it.
  • PoormansSqlFormatter
  • Tidy2
  • JSTool
  • XML Tools
  • ComparePlus
  • TextFx2
• great built-in editing operations Edit > EOL
• great bookmarking operations
• Very active development
• Way faster than VS Code for text manipulation tasks

Geany with Plugins with is great but misses out on the above stuff

Sublime is the only one and I could use it for a serious amount of time. I only went back because I could not often get it installed in some enterprises.

Thank you for your comment.

• .NET is my bread and butter and the C# language is great now. Can’t let go. I do have my eyes, and some proficiency, on Go and Python.
• I planned to use online Excel for a while, but installed LibreOffice Calc as of now.
• For backups, I am trying OneDrive-For-Linux, but eventually plan to have a syncthing based setup.

Regarding the editor, having a similar experience like Notepad++ is not a must, and I used vim on and off but could never stick due to various editing requirements over the years as mentioned in other comment.

Thank you and I wish you a similar or better success soon. Yes, I do wish to share the writings on this here slow and steadily.

Yes. Emacs/Vim is different than the traditional Notepad++ experience. For someone using Visual Studio daily, Notepad++ is relatively the same editing experience. I did use TextPad for a while before discovering Notepad++.

I did try Vim for few times on and off. I could not stick to it as I had to work on few different software areas like C#/ASP.NET, then Python, and some build scripts (windows) and more recently Terraform. I know if I could master one of Vim / Emacs I could do all this in one editor, but as I alluded to in another comment it could take a long time for this mastery.

That said, I do have a massive respect to devs who could do this.

What you said about resonates with me. Though I used vim over the years a few times and understand it’s philosophy, I feel that experience is not for many. Given how many things we handle professionally dev, ops, iac etc, the master-one-editor principle doesn’t hold for people stuck in traditional corporate / enterprise dev envs.

You had me at LSP support :)

This is a second recommendation in this post, so I will have to try it sooner than Sublime. Firing up my apt…

I have tried notepadqq, it is a bit promising, but I don’t think it can use the npp plugins yet. Thanks for the link, I will check it out.

I know of TextAdept and loved it when I used it years back. Loved the extensibility part. Unfortunately could not stick to it mostly due to plugins IIRC.

True, I did this with my notes-from-phone sync directory. It is amazing that way.

Yes, thanks for the recommendation. I heard about Kate but have actually yet to try it out.

Haha yeah! :)