Notepad++ Reviews

Notepad++ has long been a go-to application for me to manage short notes, quick text-formatting, and quick code fixes for small coding projects. It is the gold standard for plain text editors and has all the features you wish came with the text editors of most operating systems, such as Notepad for Windows. Once you've used Notepad++ you'll never want to fire up the Windows Notepad again. You'll be able to indent multiple lines at once, duplicate lines, comment and uncomment with a keystroke, convert case, sort lines lexicographically or numerically, use syntax highlighting for a broad range of possible programming languages, and more. If that isn't enough for you, there are plug-ins available to add features like an ASCII to Hex converter, exporting to HTML, and spell-checking.
Notepad++ is not a replacement for higher-order IDEs like Sublime, Visual Studio Code, Atom or Eclipse, but it is great for smaller tasks and is a great way to quickly format text or perform quick edits to your code.

Software developers are using this application to edit and create code written primarily in OpenEdge ABL. Even though this language is not natively supported by Notepad++, the default syntax highlighting is functional and provides many features which are far beyond a basic text editor.

Working with several different internal groups over the years, it's clear that Notepad++ is widely used by the IT staff (sysadmins, dbas, programmers, tech support, etc). It is not considered a corporate application that we provide to all users across our department, but the majority of the tech-related staff use Notepad++ on a regular basis. It significantly enhances the native windows text editor, by providing a magnitude of additional functions that are helpful in the day-to-day tech world.

Notepad++ was the first light code editor I've used. Previously, Eclipse was the best option for code editing (and compiling) for small stuff; then Notepad++ showed up. It was first just a more advanced Notepad, but they kept adding new functionality to it. Now it's mostly used for quick edits, converting code between different encoding.

Notepad++ is used by technical and non-technical teams at my company. Almost everyone on my team (Technical Consulting) who is on Windows uses Notepad++. We use it to write scripts, view CSV and XML data, and as a general text editor. We also use a plugin for Notepad++ called "Fingertext" extensively to help us write commonly used scripts.

I use Notepad++ as my daily editor for quickly opening an editor and taking notes. I also use Notepad++ when editing text files which are generally in the 1 MB to 3 MB size range. I believe Notepad++ is widely used throughout my organization as it is free, easy to use and has a very low footprint both in CPU usage and resources.

I personally use it for a variety of tasks but we have plenty of users who use it for other purposes. It solves a ton of problems for us through its variety of use cases. As a blanket statement, we use it heavily to convert file types or encoding types for data files we work with.