(Windows) Text editor Notepad++ banned in China after ‘Stand with Hong Kong’ update

TechCrunch ^ | Aug 17, 2020 | Rita Liao

[ro_dreaming]

Weirdly enough, I’m a VI guy, and a CMD guy - but hate programming, etc. I’ve done some Python, but just not my style/speed...

[dayglored]

> Dude, I’m a “vi” guy for anything *nix.

Funny, these days I am too, but it was a long strange road getting here.

I used line editors (/bin/ed, legit, etc.) until I got on a VAX in the mid-80s’s and discovered EDT. I tried vi, hated it.

Then I found Emacs, which I customized to work like EDT, yeah I know, weird... until around 2001. Then gedit on Linux, and TextEdit on Windows until maybe 2013. That was almost all programming.

But in 2013 I switched from s/w engineering to IT, and all I needed was something to edit config files. And I was in an insanely heterogeneous but mostly *IX network where the only thing in common on every machine was... vi (And yeah I had vi on Windows too).

So I learned to love vi, and now it’s what I use probably 99% of the time, even for programming, even though I swore in the 80’s I couldn’t believe people used vi for programming. Never say never.

[Svartalfiar]

Notepad was not fast with large files and I use it foe small files..

This is Notepad++, not Notepad. It's third party software that works great. I have about 18 tabs open in it (txt files), some of which are 1000, 3000, 6000 lines long.