two things: I changed my workflow to be less centered around a text editor (I used to use it as a scratchpad for notes on what I worked on each day and for how long, and todo items), and for actual text editing tasks I learned vim and other CLI tools better.
Honestly notepadqq is fine, but my workflow with using it as a scratchpad didn’t work because it’s auto-save and recovery was not as seamless as np++. If you don’t rely on that to the same degree I did and have an unstable, poor battery life laptop, then it is probably fine.
My issue was it only autosaves every x mins and then rather than auto-recovery on startup (aka just picking back up where you left off), you had to click through a “do you want to recover these unsaved files” dialog every time, which for me was 80% of the time when I rebooted my laptop. And there was a very annoying bug where if you had a crash, out of battery, etc. where notepadqq didn’t get cleanly shut down multiple sessions in a row, the “do you want to recover” dialogs wouldn’t get cleared out each time, they would multiply and pretty soon I was clicking through dozens or more before it would open and then manually saving, closing, and reopening, to clear out the “queue” or whatever or recovery files.
I seriously switched because I was fed up with the choice of messaging. Xnedit isn’t great, but it does have a delightfully 1994 aesthetic.
I switched like 7 years ago because their idea of linux support is “just run it in WINE” (and notepadqq is not a great substitute)
fuck that noise
What are you using now? Every few months I go on a binge of trying new text editors and file managers.
two things: I changed my workflow to be less centered around a text editor (I used to use it as a scratchpad for notes on what I worked on each day and for how long, and todo items), and for actual text editing tasks I learned vim and other CLI tools better.
Honestly notepadqq is fine, but my workflow with using it as a scratchpad didn’t work because it’s auto-save and recovery was not as seamless as np++. If you don’t rely on that to the same degree I did and have an unstable, poor battery life laptop, then it is probably fine.
My issue was it only autosaves every x mins and then rather than auto-recovery on startup (aka just picking back up where you left off), you had to click through a “do you want to recover these unsaved files” dialog every time, which for me was 80% of the time when I rebooted my laptop. And there was a very annoying bug where if you had a crash, out of battery, etc. where notepadqq didn’t get cleanly shut down multiple sessions in a row, the “do you want to recover” dialogs wouldn’t get cleared out each time, they would multiply and pretty soon I was clicking through dozens or more before it would open and then manually saving, closing, and reopening, to clear out the “queue” or whatever or recovery files.