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Another (esoteric) editor I use for quick and dirty hacks on Windows is Notepad2[0]. It's a bare-bones drop-in replacement for the default notepad.exe on Windows, and has syntax highlighting.

As for Linux, Pluma[1] is great too.

[0] https://www.flos-freeware.ch/notepad2.html

[1] https://community.linuxmint.com/software/view/pluma

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Notepad3 is actively maintained and has many improvements, btw.

https://github.com/rizonesoft/Notepad3

Wow, thank you! I'm still using Notepad2 from 2012.

Notepad2 hasn't seen any updates since 2012. Unlikely to be a massive issue for a text editor if it is considered feature complete, though it might at least mean unfixed annoyances creep in and go unfixed with newer OS versions.

There have been a series of forks, for example: https://github.com/zufuliu/notepad2

They seem to add a lot of features, though ... I'd be interested to find a more minimal one, which mostly just updates language syntaxes and OS support, and the thankless minor bug squashing ...

Your first link is flagged as 'badware risk' by uBlock Origin.

> Title: uBlock filters – Badware risks

> Description: For sites documented to put users at risk of installing adware/crapware etc. The purpose is to at least ensure a user is warned of the risks ahead.

Thanks for pointing this out. Seems like the page just redirects to here: https://www.flos-freeware.ch/notepad2.html

(I amended the URL)

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