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[Nick Sabalausky (Abscissa)]

On 09/26/2018 10:33 PM, Shachar Shemesh wrote:
> On 27/09/18 04:54, Nick Sabalausky (Abscissa) wrote:
>> Man, I wish SOO much, that was true of my favorite editor 
>> (Programmer's Notepad 2). I love it, but it's a windows thing and has 
>> some issues under wine.
> 
> Can you elaborate on what issues? Merely downloading and installing seem 
> to work fine.

The main big one was that the option to use MRU order for Ctrl-Tab 
file-switching doesn't work. Instead, it ends up being some kind of 
semi-random order.

I know that doesn't sound like a big deal, but it turned out to be a 
HUGE drain on both my mental focus and my productivity. (I habitually 
rely *very* heavily on Ctrl-Tabbing between two main documents I'm 
focusing on - or occasionally three. And the MRU behavior is very deeply 
ingrained in my muscle memory. Technically, I could save-and-close all 
other documents, but that also messes with my workflow and mental 
processes.) I love the program so much that I tried to work through it 
(and filed bug reports, etc), but ultimately it proved to be too much of 
a problem.

Another, smaller, issue was that it doesn't start up nearly as fast 
under wine (still WAY faster than most IDEs though.) Although that's 
admittedly very minor, and not a deal-breaker. Although it's 
near-instant startup was one of the things I loved about it back on windows.

I seem the remember there being one other quirk I ran into (maybe 
related to find or replace?), but it's been awhile so I don't remember 
exactly what that was.