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title: I'm Using Notepad++
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date: 2015-10-27
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#### Again
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UPDATE! I've started using Atom (thanks to Oliver Dunk for reminding me
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about it), enjoy it a ton with the remote-edit package. I'll have a
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follow-up post with more thoughts :P
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Maybe I'm just crazy. Or maybe there are some things I just really need
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my development area to do. Because of my job as CTO of a YouTube
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Network, I need to do a lot of work on the website, which means I need
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real-time access to it. I have a locally hosted server using XAMPP, but
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it's not enough -- for example, when I have subdirectories, or
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a .htaccess rule, I have to do this
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```
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<link href="/projectname/css/bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet">
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```
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which is obviously incorrect when deploying it to a real server.
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Maybe I should explain a bit more -- for the past few months, I've been
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sticking with Visual Studio Code, Microsoft's entry into the text-editor-that-also-has-syntax-highlighting-and-other-IDE-stuff area
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(or as I sometimes call it, simple IDEs). It's not bad, but for things
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like plugin support, it simply isn't there.
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So why Notepad++? A piece of software that looks like it's from the 80s?
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Well, for one, NppFTP. A small plugin that allows me to edit and upload
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file in basically real-time on a server. I've been using it for about 20
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minutes and it's already *super* useful. Second, oodles of
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customization. I'm just getting back into it, but I already like it (the
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top bar is still ugly though).
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As soon as vsCode adds FTP support, I'll probably immediately switch
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back to it. I love the aesthetic, and the autocomplete is *decent*. But
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for the time being, I'm sticking with Notepad++.
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