It's the Gold Standard
February 04, 2019
It's the Gold Standard
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Notepad++
My company provides engineering consulting services to clients who want industrial processes automated or systems automatically tested. We mainly use LabVIEW to do the software development but also interface with a wide variety of hardware and software. In order to persist settings we store a lot of data in XML, txt, ini, and custom files that can all be loaded into a text editor. We have standardized on Notepad++ because it is a free and powerful text editor that does a lot of organizing for these types of files that Microsoft built-in tools do not, which saves us a lot of effort.
- Parsing XML files and simple text code structures.
- You can have multiple files open in a single window.
- There are a lot of advanced features such as encoding and macro support.
- I'm sure there's a setting for this but I get notified of updates nearly every time I use the software.
- It's a free tool so that's always fantastic.
- The uses are very wide, from simple note taking to reviewing code.
- It's easy to package for clients when distributing software.
I haven't used anything other than Notepad++ simply because I haven't had a need to. Notepad++ is already just by nearly 100% of my customers, new employees have experience with it, and it has all the feature that my company needs, which means there hasn't been a need to look elsewhere.