I prefer Notepad++. On Linux, Geany is a viable alternative.... If I need an IDE, I will get an IDE.
I want my text editor to be as lightweight as possible.
This was not the case with Atom.
I eventually gave up on Notepad++ because I became increasingly frustrated with the syntax highlighting inconsistencies.
I was trying to get Solarized Markdown highlighting working.
Edit: I lie, it was Twilight [0]
I just wanted to get that working with Markdown - but there are just so many limitations with the syntax highlighting system and I was always making tradoffs.
I switched to Sublime (cross platform, prettier, more performant, fuzzy finding, better highlighting, better shortcuts, better plugins - but closed source) and then to Vim (cross platform + ssh, open source, PITA to learn but gains from the more programmable way of editing, the potential to match or better most aspects of ST)
VSCode[1] has multicursors and I believe that atom[2] does too... not advocating for your switch, you should be happy with whatever editor you choose, but, that feature is more wide-spread than people realize.
notepad++ has horrible project workspace navigation. Any trivial UI that requires horizontal scrollbar is just not ready for prime time. go back to the drawing board
I was trying to get Solarized Markdown highlighting working.
Edit: I lie, it was Twilight [0]
I just wanted to get that working with Markdown - but there are just so many limitations with the syntax highlighting system and I was always making tradoffs.
I switched to Sublime (cross platform, prettier, more performant, fuzzy finding, better highlighting, better shortcuts, better plugins - but closed source) and then to Vim (cross platform + ssh, open source, PITA to learn but gains from the more programmable way of editing, the potential to match or better most aspects of ST)
[0]: https://github.com/ianchanning/Notepad---Markdown-Highlighti...