It’s lightweight, can run portably, and has some oddly specific but useful features such as dual window linked scrolling, syntax highlighting, and even allows regex for search/replace which is neat.
You can use it for coding (I use it for short python scripts), but that isn’t it’s main use.
VScode is, primarily, an IDE - not really something you use as a plain text editor.
I’m still looking for a Linux replacement with syntax highlighting like Notepad++. Kate is good, even better performance, but no UI for highlighting. The coding for syntax is way over my head from what I saw.
I’ve recently switched from np++ to Sublime for some non-standard issues – I would say that could be closer in performance & extensibility to Vim/Emacs; though limited to GUI and non-FOSS of course.
Notepad++ is, at its heart, a text editor.
It’s lightweight, can run portably, and has some oddly specific but useful features such as dual window linked scrolling, syntax highlighting, and even allows regex for search/replace which is neat.
You can use it for coding (I use it for short python scripts), but that isn’t it’s main use.
VScode is, primarily, an IDE - not really something you use as a plain text editor.
I’m still looking for a Linux replacement with syntax highlighting like Notepad++. Kate is good, even better performance, but no UI for highlighting. The coding for syntax is way over my head from what I saw.
I’ve recently switched from np++ to Sublime for some non-standard issues – I would say that could be closer in performance & extensibility to Vim/Emacs; though limited to GUI and non-FOSS of course.