[vvnraman]

Notepad++ is one of the fastest and the best editors out there.

Products like these show that over a given period of time, people being to notice the subtle differences between the speed of simple things, like the time taken for the context menu to appear, or the drop-down for word completion to appear. This is primarily why my use of IDEs has decreased over time. It just takes a little too long for doing stuff in them, and hinders your natural flow.

By the way, their word completion (Settings -> Preferences -> Backup/Auto-completion -> Word Completion) is simply their killer feature and has spoiled me for any other editors.

[aith]

I love Notepad++ but there must be 1000s of awesome features like this that I'm still not aware of. Thanks for the tip.

[olsonea]

The Compare plugin is one such feature. It highlights the deltas between two files.

edit: forgive me if you're already aware of it.

[meow]

+1 for the speed. Not many IDEs seem to care for that any more. Especially most java based IDEs. They feel so sluggish even for the most rudimentary of tasks (opening menus, launching, closing, autocomplete etc)

[Joeri]

I switched from zend studio to phpstorm almost entirely due to speed, with product quality being the other part of what drove me. Fundamentally, an ide is still a code editor, and it has to do that at least as well as notepad++ or i will not use it.

[jussij]

FWIW the Zeus editor has a lot of IDE like features yet it still feals like a fast text editor.

[jtdennis]

Wow, I've been using n++ for years and never realized that feature was there. It'll save me so much time. Thanks!

[platz]

I never realized this either. Thanks!

[sad_panda]

M-/ in Emacs. ;)