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cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/36613111
Notepad++ - always been free, clean, and drastically better than Notepad:
Notepad++ is a free (as in “free speech” and also as in “free beer”) source code editor and Notepad replacement that supports several languages. Running in the MS Windows environment, its use is governed by GNU General Public License.
I've got one piece of software at work on a Windows server that has some special encoding(?) voodoo with "encrypted" (rather masked/obscured) passwords in the config file that always causes the config to break if I edit (save) them with Notepad++. In all other regards, it's perfect and a solid choice for almost any case where you need an editor for text files.
End of Line (EOL) sensitive software perhaps?
We had the opposite problem, things edited in notepad would fail miserably once deployed to the target Linux servers. Nowadays git checkout settings on the build servers tend to get rid of those, but I remember it was the one thing that would occasionally explode.
I don't want to dox myself, so a bit vague: No, in this case something strange is going on. The obfuscated passwords get a prefix before the hex string. Like e.g. Jetty uses "OBF:". If I edit a file in Notepad++ that contains such a string, it displays the prefix as some... strange(probably cyrillic?) characters - that aren't even in my (or the software vendor's) local encoding. Sometimes some of the characters in the obfuscated string change as well, but not all.
Most strange is, that the obfuscation command outputs the obfuscated string in a file in my local codepage - and everything is normal in VS Code, in regular Notepad, when printing the file on the command line,... But Notepad++ somehow fucks it up. I still guess that something is in that obfuscated string that either completely breaks Notepad++ or that Notepad++ is the only one correctly interpreting the byte sequence and all other editors are completely oblivious about some specific thing. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
And no, I already tried converting everything to ASCII only, letting Notepad++ or other editors display non-printable characters, converting everything to UTF-8 (with or w/o BOM),... Maybe I should try a hex dump?!
There's so much misinformation about Linux and people just take the bait hook, line, and sinker. I don't get that...
Linux was way easier than I expected it to be and I have an advanced use case (home recording studio) which took a lot of tinkering to figure out. I did all that tinkering in a dual-boot arrangement and once I was done and convinced my needs were met, I never looked back.
For the last year, every day I boot up my PC I'm happy.
Just switched over to EndeavourOS from Win 10, expected an Arch-based nightmare. My main issue was Discord not working with mouse-based push to talks, so I bound my forward button on my mouse to the non-existant F24 and it's fine. That's it. That's the most difficult hacky thing I've had to do (tried a few different packages to manage mouse input stuff and mucked around in some config files that were easy enough to understand).
Everything else has been seamless, updating is easy (so far), and I'm chillin playing games on Steam. 10/10.
I don't really, but I enjoy that I can almost say btw I use Arch. Maybe someday.
It’s easy until it’s not. I’ve got a decent gaming rig and have been running Linux on it since I built it a couple of months ago. Once an update completely broke my sound but the next one fixed it. Otherwise it’s been fine.
On the other hand I set up a Raspberry Pi to be a print server and have been troubleshooting it since Christmas. It will print the first job just fine but subsequent jobs are stuck in the queue until I reboot. I’ve googled endlessly, tried everything I can think of and it just won’t work unless I constantly reboot. Same printer worked flawlessly in Windows 10 for years before I set up the Pi.
So, yeah. YMMV is the problem with Linux.
Not the point, I know, but since this is a mastodon post, don’t we have the ability to cross post and not share a screenshot?
Want escape Goes Vivaldi.
... Yeah there's a lot still left learn buddy
this is why they killed off wordpad. they added spell check and 'ai' bullshit to notepad, they would have had to do the same to wordpad--which was basically notepad with basic formatting and rtf/doc support....
with even just spell check added to wordpad, most users would have had no reason to ~~buy~~subscribe to office for word, then, just those needing the 'advanced' features beyond basic formatting and spell checking, or one of the other components of office (excel, outlook 'classic', etc).
Great
The next step is to realize that Linux works just as easy as Windows. Actually, strike that, it works better and easier.
Have you seen the shit windows admins ask about under the #windows tag?
Yeah, I regularly need help with Linux but I'm a developer and I build new things. If you don't, you don't need 99% of those articles as those too are for power users mostly.
Welcome to the dark side, we got cookies
I love the updates and no subscription model. 10/10 have been recommending.
The Windows 11 version of Notepad also makes it impossible to click on the second-to-last line. "Oh you must be trying to click on the last line!"
I wonder if I could run the Windows 7 version of Notepad off of a flash drive in later versions of Windows...
notepad++
Yeah, I've used it. Sometimes I want more basic.
Kate text editor is available for Windows. Notepad ++ is also pretty good. Fuck Notepad, even when I used Windows I was using Notepad ++. I wish I knew about Kate back then.