Notepad++ - This is the definitive notepad-related software you’ll ever need. Multiple tabs, keeps tracks of lines, lots of features and preferences. One of the most invaluable parts of it, is that you can close it or a update happens or maybe your PC will get knocked offline. You can come back to Notepad++, open it, and everything will be retained.

  • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
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    1 hour ago

    Multiple tabs

    Emacs has various ways to display tabs, but I don’t use tabs in emacs, because it doesn’t scale well to, say, dozens of tabs; normally, each additional buffer I have doesn’t normally have any visual indication onscreen that it exists. I use a couple of other buffer-switching software packages.

    keeps track of lines

    Defaults to being shown in the minibuffer. By default, C-h = will run what-cursor-position and will also explicitly show the byte offset, line number, column number, and percentage of way through the file.

    One of the most invaluable parts of it, is that you can close it or a update happens or maybe your PC will get knocked offline. You can come back to Notepad++, open it, and everything will be retained.

    This is called desktop-save-mode in emacs. C-h f desktop-save-mode will show documentation. You can have a single global saved instance, or multiple concurrent instances of emacs saving desktop state for separate projects.