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> With the wealth of high quality and extremely portable code editors out there... What am I missing?

I’d say you’re missing the fact that there aren’t actually that many high quality code editors out there, portable or not. Finding an editor you like is worth a fair bit.

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Notepad++ is definitely an option if you're on Windows and looking for something free(it's GPL-licenced). Feature-wise it's on a par with Sublime but it has slightly less polished UX, e.g. there's no real-time regex highlighting or markdown formatting, at least not out of the box.

And it is worth regularly donating some money to their devs.

I use Notepad++ at work and ST3 at home, and there is no way that Notepad++ is feature-wise on par with ST. The sidebar options aren't good, no multi-select, no good way to organize projects, and it chokes on big files.

The fact that I have to click through 30 modal dialogs every time all my open files have to 'refresh' after a network hiccup is enough of a reason to curse at Notepad++.

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