[jchmbrln]

Yes! When I started using Kate on Linux ca. 2005, I was coming from Notepad on Windows and couldn’t believe how nice it was. I believe it was my first experience of syntax highlighting.

And Amarok! I haven’t thought of that in a while. Losing Amarok was my single biggest regret when I became a Max user. I’ve not used anything since that came close.

[doubled112]

What about Clementine or Strawberry? Clementine was a fork of Amarok 1.4, and Strawberry a fork of Clementine.

I recently discovered Strawberry would play music off of my Subsonic server (Navidrome really) and was thrilled to have something for music that didn't feel like a web app.

[jraph]

> I was coming from Notepad on Windows

Ouch. You didn't use Notepad++?

[Symbiote]

Notepad++ would have been very new at that time. I don't know what those early releases were like.

But there were similar editors. I remember using SCIte which was similar to Notepad++. SCIte was first released in 1999.

[lproven]

Notepad++ is based on Scintilla, for which Scite is sort of the demo program. Scintilla is also the basis of Geany.

I explained this recently on the Reg. Read the Reg. ;-)

https://www.theregister.com/2023/12/06/veteran_editors_notep...

[distances]

My editor of choice back in the Windows days was EditPlus, from 1998 (and looks like it's still maintained). I think it had syntax highlighting from the start too.

[bluGill]

Amarok is preparing for another release. I wonder if it will come to mac.

[tvshtr]

Yeah, that's a surprising revival. I thought it died for good this time.

[bluGill]

I think people who got excited about streaming (one low price and you get whatever music you want on tap) have started to realize it isn't as nice as it seems (music disappears, they push music you don't want, and don't support artists like CDs do) and so developers are coming back to local clients that you control managing music you own.