Last week I had a meeting with a bunch of .NET programmers and noticed they all use Visual Studio for their projects development. As I know .NET to some extend, I know it’s quite hard to code C# with a simple tool like Notepad++, so I somewhat understand their enthusiasm about VS.
I also experimented with Zend a while ago, but always got back to good old Notepad++, here are some reasons why:
- It is fast
- It doesn’t add any garbage code
- I control everything
- I know what I’m doing at all times
Notepad++ is great, but has some drawbacks as well:
- It’s quite unstable recently
- Auto-complete is painful to use
- No live full syntax correction
- Good replacements are being available
I apologize to all who are not programmers and don’t have any experience in web programming, as this must have been painful to read – especially if you came so far to read this line =)
miijiik
13 years ago
It looks like you haven’t ever met TextMate, right?!
And if you don’t have a Mac (obviously, you are using Windows apps), there is a PC port of TextMate and it is the same awesomeness, as on Mac, it’s just called e.
Be sure to check out at least the screencast to see a bit of its potential or simply download demo for free @ http://www.e-texteditor.com/
PS: Yoast’s WordPress TextMate bundle works like charm in e too 🙂
Željan Topić
13 years ago
Just watched the screencast and don’t see any major advantage. I should probably use it and comment afterwards, but I’m kindda old school and only need a solid Notepad++, without autocompletion tools and similar stuff – just a fast editor that doesn’t break.
Keenan Payne
13 years ago
Without a doubt Notepad++ is my favorite tool to use, and besides Photoshop CS5 for graphics, is the only one. Hand coding websites whether it’s a static HTML and CSS website, or modifying a WordPress theme just feels so much better, and in my opinion, Notepad++ is definitely the way to go.