Notepad++ v8.1.9.1 Release

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Notepad++ is my primary editor on Windows.

I don't write code, but I am in and out of a dozen or more text files a day, looking at EDI data, translator configurations, etc. It's fast and remembers the files I had open yesterday. I find its search dialog to be big and clunky, but it's a minor issue compared to the overall utility of the editor (and I love how it counts instances of what it finds).

The only thing I use VSCode for is analyzing CSV files; its Rainbow CSV plugin is the best way to visualize a big CSV file to find out where a client messed up their input.

I love Notepad++, but sadly, I have never used it since I started using VSCode.

It's so much faster though

If I'm in c# I'm in vs studio, but everything else I love Notepad++ more for it's speed.

I still use it a lot on Windows as a scratchpad kind of thing. The near instant load times and the persistent memory are super useful to me.

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