Comment on In 3.5 years, Notepad.exe has gone from “barely maintained” to “it writes for you”
thingsiplay@beehaw.org 4 hours agoI use Neovim, BTW.
Comment on In 3.5 years, Notepad.exe has gone from “barely maintained” to “it writes for you”
thingsiplay@beehaw.org 4 hours agoI use Neovim, BTW.
Fiivemacs@lemmy.ca 4 hours ago
I shall take a peek. I don’t plan on upgrading to W11 so notepad won’t even be a thing anymore anyways.
Turret3857@infosec.pub 3 hours ago
KWrite is what you want
thingsiplay@beehaw.org 3 hours ago
Oh wait, if you are not familiar with Vim or Neovim, then this won’t be for you probably. It works completely different compared to a regular text editor and is somewhat complicated and for terminal. There are benefits to it why that is, but just so you know its not a “normal” editor. This is just a warning. :D
In example the keys
h,j,k,lare used to move the cursor in the editor and every key is a special command basically. You have to switch into editing mode to type in text.Powderhorn@beehaw.org 1 hour ago
I tried vi in college and still haven’t been able to exit. (exaggeration, of course, but dear god, that made Notepad seem user friendly) When in Linux, I tend to use Kate and nano.
thingsiplay@beehaw.org 1 hour ago
Actually Vi is not Vim. Vim is a lot user friendly with its documentation. The question is, what you expect and if you learn it properly. Its not unser unfriendly, its just different. It’s like saying GIMP is user unfriendly, because you used Photoshop before and GIMP is not exactly the same.
end of my rant :D
Fiivemacs@lemmy.ca 3 hours ago
I’ve used vim in the past, normally stuck with nano though. It won’t be a big shock with how different it is. My daily driving is current windows so never bothered with much else other than notepad++ but come October I’m formatting all drives in my house to rid myself of anything windows related and starting fresh with some Linux flavor. Most likely ubuntu or mint, haven’t settled yet
Powderhorn@beehaw.org 1 hour ago
I cycled through a number of distros a few years back on my mini HTPC before finally settling on KDE Neon. The amount of customization with panels and such is insane. I started by trying to recreate the Windows experience (which is dead simple) but soon branched out to having multiple panels, which can be autohidden individually. Settings on the left side of the screen, power options on the right (both set to hide), system tray up top, and the task manager at the bottom.