Just like migrating from Reddit to Lemmy it’s the same as migrating from Windows to Linux, there’s shortcomings and learning curve and the more I use Lemmy the more I hate about Windows, because unlike reddit Lemmy is open source and open source softwares communities is more popular than proprietary communities and people like to shit on them (and I loved it). (Sorry for horrible English)

    • Audacious@sh.itjust.works
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      6 months ago

      -Folder search/replace functions, which searches all text in all file types in a folder I choose.

      -User created language rules and formatting (An example use case is a personal path of exile’s loot filter)

      -Dark mode or ability to customize UI colors

      -Exporting/importing application settings and languages

      Notepad++ can do these without too much of a learning curve, which is nice, because I’m not looking for a full IDE to learn. Also the last two points are not as important, but really nice to have.

      I’m willing to learn a new software package as long as it doesn’t have a big learning curve (basically as easy as notepad++), suggestions would be welcomed and maybe a nudge in the right direction to where these features are.

      • aberrate_junior_beatnik@midwest.socialEnglish
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        5 months ago

        I don’t know if you’ve tried Kate, but it does most of this. It can act as an IDE, but it’s first and foremost a text editor, which is similar to Notepad++ (iirc, it’s been a while). The toughest requirement to meet would be

        -User created language rules and formatting (An example use case is a personal path of exile’s loot filter) … without too much of a learning curve

        https://docs.kde.org/stable5/en/kate/katepart/highlight.html is the documentation for how you’d do that, and https://invent.kde.org/frameworks/syntax-highlighting/-/tree/master/data/syntax has all of the built-in syntax highlighters.

        It also runs on Windows, so you can give it a spin and see what you think. It’s unfortunate that NP++ is tied so directly to Windows APIs, but I wonder how hard it would be to use winelib to make a decent Linux version.

        • Audacious@sh.itjust.works
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          5 months ago

          I tried Kate on Linux, and didn’t see that. I’ll look into it again. Thanks for the tip.

          I have no clue what it would take to make a Linux version, way over my head haha