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China should be more helpful with regards to open source. Notepad++ is a great editor. I don't use it on Linux, because I have an older editor I am very used to, but on Windows I like notepad++ a lot (though lately I have been using geany on Windows, mostly for convenience - I think notepad++ is better but I sort of like the github-based development of geany; either way notepad++ is really excellent as we", "context": "", "use_case": "text editing on Windows", "switched_from": "Notepad++", "story": "Notepad++ hijacked by state-sponsored actors"}]}], "caveats": [], "who": [], "tags": [], "use_cases": ["printing code", "text editing on windows", "vs code replacement"], "compared": [{"slug": "notepadplusplus", "name": "Notepad++", "co": 1, "switched_from": 1, "switched_to": 0}, {"slug": "visual-studio-code", "name": "Visual Studio Code", "co": 1, "switched_from": 1, "switched_to": 0}], "makers": [], "threads": [{"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49617255", "title": "How to build a printer", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46851548", "title": "Notepad++ hijacked by state-sponsored actors", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46431049", "title": "You Need to Ditch VS Code", "mentions": 1}], "sentiment_by_month": {"2025-11": {}, "2025-12": {"neutral": 1}, "2026-01": {}, "2026-02": {"recommend": 1}, "2026-03": {}, "2026-04": {}, "2026-05": {}, "2026-06": {}, "2026-07": {}, "2026-08": {}, "2026-09": {"recommend": 1}, "2026-10": {}}, "quotes": [{"id": 794037776, "item_id": 49627361, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49627361", "by": "trashb", "date": "2026-09-09", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I used to print a lot of code from Geany, that has some nice support for printing line numbers and code highlights", "excerpt": "I used to print a lot of code from Geany, that has some nice support for printing line numbers and code highlights that I have a hard time replicating in other tools.", "context": "", "use_case": "printing code", "switched_from": "", "story": "How to build a printer"}, {"id": 749651009, "item_id": 46853188, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46853188", "by": "shevy-java", "date": "2026-02-01", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "lately I have been using geany on Windows, mostly for convenience", "excerpt": "That's sad. China should be more helpful with regards to open source. Notepad++ is a great editor. I don't use it on Linux, because I have an older editor I am very used to, but on Windows I like notepad++ a lot (though lately I have been using geany on Windows, mostly for convenience - I think notepad++ is better but I sort of like the github-based development of geany; either way notepad++ is really excellent as we", "context": "", "use_case": "text editing on Windows", "switched_from": "Notepad++", "story": "Notepad++ hijacked by state-sponsored actors"}, {"id": 742918113, "item_id": 46432382, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46432382", "by": "globalnode", "date": "2025-12-30", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "Using geany for a week or so hasn't been terrible but its not great either.", "excerpt": "While this issue is up, I've recently been looking for an alternative to vscode for personal use because it runs so slow now with a few other programs running in the background. My main requirement is copy paste needs to be ctrl+c, ctrl+v and text selection needs to be ctrl shift + arrow keys or some combination of those. Using geany for a week or so hasn't been terrible but its not great either.", "context": "", "use_case": "VS Code replacement", "switched_from": "VS Code", "story": "You Need to Ditch VS Code"}]}