Notepad++ VS Kakoune

Notepad++ Reviews

Kakoune Reviews

Notepad++ mentions (169)

• Open-Shell: A collection of utilities bringing back classic features to Windows

  Whenever I need to live on a Windows system for any length of time, I install [notepad++](https://notepad-plus-plus.org) Do you prefer Notepad3 over Notepad++, and can you share why if so? - Source: Hacker News / 14 days ago

• Regex is not your enemy

  So, the only option left is to use regular expressions. You need a text editor that can "Find" and "Replace" using them - my choice is Notepad++ (for Windows people like me - shortcut Ctrl+H). - Source: dev.to / 4 months ago

• Notepad on Windows 11 is finally getting a character count

  If you sling text around regularly, why not treat yourself to a decent text editor? Both Notepad++ (Windows) and Notepadqq (Linux) are free, open-source, and a hell of a lot netter than Notepad. Source: 5 months ago

• Creating a 'Proper Nouns' List

  The most common way I use it is to right click a note and open a note in the default app which I have set .MD to open in Notepad++ which is a text editor with regex search/replace. Source: 5 months ago

• Anybody have surfcam experience?

  Notepad ++ is similar to notepad but has a lot more features. There are more features but different colored text and the ability to search are a couple examples. And it's free. Source: 5 months ago

Kakoune mentions (9)

• Helix: Release 24.03 Highlights

  Helix's modal editing is based on Kakoune's modal editing which is like an evolution to Vim's modal editing. You can think of it as being always in selection (visual) mode. https://github.com/mawww/kakoune?tab=readme-ov-file#selectio.... - Source: Hacker News / about 1 month ago

• I don't need your query language

  You might like kakoune (https://github.com/mawww/kakoune), which does exactly that: first you select the range (which can even be disjoint, e.g. All words matching a regex), then you operate on it. By default, the selected range is the character under cursor, and multiple cursors work out of the box. It also generally follows the Unix philosophy, e.g. By using shell... - Source: Hacker News / 11 months ago

• I use nano BTW.

  It might be worth checking out kakoune if you are experimenting with editors. It’s supposed to be equally powerful to vim but much easier to learn. Source: over 1 year ago

• Mle is a small, flexible, terminal-based text editor written in C

  For that, try Kakoune[1], which is modal with a mostly-postfix language instead of vi's usually-prefix one and uses this to also be a multiple-selections editor with immediate visual feedback. It falls too much into the uncanny valley of almost-but-not-quite-vi for some people, though. [1] https://kakoune.org/, https://github.com/mawww/kakoune. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• CppCon 2022

  I think the text editor, [Kakoune](https://github.com/mawww/kakoune), was written as an experiment in modern C++ language features. Its documentation says it requires a C++20 compiler, though I don't imagine it was originally for that version, since it was started before 2020. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago