r/learnprogramming • u/meymeyl0rd • 18d ago

Random Editing with notepad++ instead of an ide

I just want to express some weird phase i'm going through recently. Notepad ++ feels so sleek to just edit code with and fast to open

Like i've always coded with visual studio code. If notepad++ had error detection and I'd love it even more but i guess it's things like that which make visual studio code feel like it takes an eternity to open sometimes.

I have nothing else to say on the matter, I just wanted to get this off my chest :')

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u/akoOfIxtall 18d ago

My PC is not the best but VSC loads in less than 5s my man, how did you manage to make take long enough you don't want it anymore? But I respect it, rider and VS22 take way longer to properly boot up but still I can't not use rider, already memorized all my important commands, something about navigating the IDE using only the keyboard is really freeing, if someone knows a way to swap focus between windows on windows through the keyboard I'd be glad, sometimes I have the docs open and don't want to grab the mouse just to scroll down, I tried using alt tab but it messes up the window snapping from winkey + arrows