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helle253yesterday at 5:38 PM3 repliesview on HN

Notepad++ already exists, is more reliable, and already has a md support plugin

recent vuln asside (big caveat ill admit) idk why you would use notepad at all when N++ exists


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JohnFenyesterday at 7:25 PM

I don't find Notepad++ to be a good replacement for (the old) notepad, personally. It's too feature-filled. The big win of notepad was that it was genuinely minimalist.

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fastasucanyesterday at 9:14 PM

If you dont need any of the ++ why would you use notepad++ over notepad?

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tracker1yesterday at 8:35 PM

I always liked Crimson/Emerald more myself.