While learning J2EE using Tomcat, My instructor told me to practice ONLY on notepad to improve my programming skills. But I found typing code in notepad a mess. No tab indentation, Tag closing, etc. The biggest mistakes i used to do are like forgetting closing tags in"web.xml" file... hehehe...
Obviously it's hard for a .Net programmer who is using Visual Studio from last 3 years to switch back to notepad and type the code. We get almost double work.
So, I searched upon the internet to find a better tool for that. I found various softwares that can replace existing notepad. But only two of them drawn my attention.
1. Notepad++:
No doubt, the software is good, providing many functions which may help the code writing an easy task. It is almost same like working on a normal IDE for programming. It also provided me to get rid of monotonous white background of notepad and black fonts. Yes, it has many pre-installed themes for us. N you can even customize it according to your choice.
But this was not what I was looking for. The software was obviously a heavy one. N too many functions and features sometime make me feel irritated. I wanted something simple, small, yet powerful...
So I went to Second Option:
2. Notepad2
This replacement of notepad is again free and opensource. (Well... I don't know whether Notepad++ is open source).
It is a small one. With though not much functionalities like that in Notepad2, But still, I liked the portability of the software. You don't always need an installer to use this. You can put the Notepad2 file in your USB Drive and can use it on any system without hassle of installing it. If you want to install it, it will replace your Default notepad application to Notepad2.
So, if you are finding something power-packed notepad replacement, Go for Notepad++.
Or if you are like me (irritating for big apps...), want just a coding and a tab indentation, tag closing. nothing else, opt for Notepad2.
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