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.
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.
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.
.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.
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.
Every time I am tempted to buy a Hyryder, this is what comes to my mind. I drive at most 50 kms/week. We are probably some years away from this becming an economic reality.
I have been using QOwnNotes for about 6 months. It is cross platform, lightweight, extensible and a plain-text markdown note-taking program written in C++/Qt. It can integrate with Nextcloud. Installable via scoop on Window and apt on Debian† (after installing their apt key).
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Yes, thanks for the recommendation. I heard about Kate but have actually yet to try it out.