Sublime Text Vs Notepad

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For years all I heard about was how great Notepad++ was from bloggers and others alike. So, one day after reading all the positive reviews I decided to give it a try. Afterall I did most of my writing and programming in good ‘ol Microsoft notepad. Anything would have been a step up at that point.

They do have a few different versions that you can download. Being a big fan of portable programs I decided to give Notepad++ portable a try.

For a few weeks it worked well enough. It was a little choppy at times when I would scroll down the page, but for the most part it did what I needed to do. All I needed was a basic, simple, text editor. Since it highlighted various programming language code even better.

That was until one unusual day. I was working on a rather large .php file. I wanted to reuse a small snippet of code so I did the traditional copy and paste. The second I clicked paste Notepad++ decides to crash on me. Oh … oh! I thought to myself, that's not good.

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So, I wait a few seconds and restart Notepad++ back up. Once it starts it has this very confusing question along with a yes/no or cancel/ok. It wasn't clear what the best selection should be so anyway I clicked one and it opens my .php file, but it's blank. Completely and totally wiped out. Nothing at all there.

Of course I tried restarting and still blank empty file. I checked the system cache folder for any even partial file I could get back, but nothing happening there either.

I know. Keep backups right? Luckily I do, but I can't back up every couple of minutes or seconds. I would never get anything done at that rate.

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I ended up losing about 24 hours worth of programming, which kind of sucked. But, it could have been worse. I could have lost it all. It was a pretty large file at that point so losing everything would have been a major blow. 24 hours was bad enough.

This was the absolute last time I used Notepad++, and I would never … ever recommend it to anyone know matter what.

So, I started looking for a replacement when I stumbled upon Sublime Text Editor, which comes in 32 bit or 64 bit. Also, an installer or portable version. So, I went with the 32 bit portable. Afterall it's just a text editor why on earth would I need a 64 bit version for anyway? Plus my good ‘ol laptop is only 32 bit, which would allow me to transfer between it and my 64 bit desktop computer if I needed to.

Sublime has been great. I have been using it for quite a while without a single crash, hiccup, problem, or issue. It just runs perfectly smooth on both of my computers.

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I do use a slightly older version (Build 3126) because my laptop is so old it can't handle anything that takes even a slight amount of extra CPU power or RAM.

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It is supposed to be a trial, but it still works after using it for a considerable amount of time. Every once in a while when saving my file(s) it asks me to upgrade or get a license or something. I just choose cancel and it continues to work just fine.

I think the paid licensed version is around $70, which seems a little steep to me considering it's just a text editor. Granted it does a lot more than I need to do. So, maybe it would be worth it for some of you that do more complex programming and like the extra features.

I know it will do more than I have ever needed it for. If the paid licensed version was more like $20-$25 I would consider purchasing a license just to support the developer. However, at $70 a pop count me out.

I can definitely live with an occasional nag screen for that price.

So, if you are looking for a good text editor/programming editor be sure to check out Sublime in your spare time. It's definitely worth it.

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I currently use Notepad++ as my text editor but was curious about Sublime Text 2. Powerpoint cost uk. For those that have used both Sublime Text and Notepad++ is it worth switching. As far as I can tell I Notepad++ has a lot of the same features and you can extend it with add-ons.

I'm open to trying new things that may make my life easier but was curious if there is enough difference to make the change.

Thanks,Andy

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TL;DR: Yes.

First, 'vi mode' or 'vintage mode' as it's called is not a minor difference, it's a HUGE FEATURE. The ability to give modal text commands from Sublime is a productivity dream. I can't even operate in Sublime without Vintage mode turned on. You really need to be able to use as many keyboard navigation around your text editor whenever possible for maximum speed. Sublime can be a great way for Vim novices to start to wrap their head around modal editing while still having all the cool GUI features a click away.

Second, yes, Notepad has plugins, but not in the way that Sublime does. Sublime takes the massive plugin library built up around TextMate and extends it even further. Sublime came with a million plugins out of the box because TextMate has a million plugins and that situation has only gotten better as Sublime has matured. It also has the wonderful Package Control (https://sublime.wbond.net/) plugin which allows you to search, install, uninstall, edit, etc all plugins right from a hotkey. Comparing Notepad++ to Sublime because they're both scriptable and have plugin architecture is like comparing Gimp to Photoshop simply because they both have a plugin architecture. Library matters.

Third, if you have to travel cross platform a lot, Sublime is basically exactly the same on every platform aside from some modifier keys while Notepad++ doesn't exist. It's nice to be able to load up the same config in every OS much like you see with Vim and Emacs. I prefer the experience and ease of configuration over Vim and Emacs also. The config is a simple JSON file and it's very easy to make the editor do exactly what you want or git sync your dotfiles like you would with your command line editor.

Fourth, it's commercial software but you can freely use the demo forever, so you may as well try it out and see if you like it.

Fifth, there's a reason that no one has bothered to port Notepad++ to Linux or Mac (libraries aside) and it's because Unix has better editors. There's no reason to look for a text editor when Vim and Emacs are installed out of the box. Windows, that's not the case. You're given Notepad and Wordpad out of the box which are both abysmal. Immediately everyone wants to go look for a free text editor to do even the most basic tasks.

Something else you might want to consider is simply skipping Sublime also and simply learning Vim or Emacs. I can promise you you'll never have to worry about those programs not being available or relevant 20 years into the future.

Apart from 'vi mode' I'm not sure there is a feature difference

The only thing I have found Sublime to be better at is the Auto Complete. Notepad++ does have it, but it does not work as well as Sublime.

There is a much greater learning curve with Sublime. There is no GUI interface. Everything (settings) is added through what they call 'Snippets', and to change something as simple as your font, you have to do it manually from the 'Settings-User' menu. Its very frustrating as a novice (Which I still am). The 'Main' reason I switched to Sublime is that I intend on using a Mac in the future to create iOS applications, so I want something thats the same on all Linux, Windows, and OS X platforms. And Sublime seems to be the winner. But its taken me a lot of time on google trying to figure the most basic stuff out :/ For HTML/CSS, I dont see any reason why not to stick with Notepad++, (other than the reasons such as mine). Although, programming in other languages, Sublime probably has some more benefits.

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