{"id":306,"date":"2010-02-02T10:04:38","date_gmt":"2010-02-02T17:04:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.natsci.colostate.edu\/bioit\/?p=306"},"modified":"2010-02-02T10:04:38","modified_gmt":"2010-02-02T17:04:38","slug":"finally-a-replacement-for-notepad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/finally-a-replacement-for-notepad\/","title":{"rendered":"Finally, a replacement for Notepad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the past decade or so, I have been stuck using the default Notepad application that comes pre-installed on every Windows computer.\u00a0 For my purposes, the &#8216;Development Suite&#8217; applications such as the MS &#8216;Visual&#8217; tools and other development environments are too much &#8211; heavy and complicated.\u00a0 As I am usually working on a single file containing HTML, JAVA or PHP code, Notepad was a sufficient solution due to its lightweight and very simple interface &#8211; just type!\u00a0 However, longing for the days when I programmed with Emacs on a Unix system &#8211; led me to do a little research to find a similar tool that could highlight syntax and make the coding more human readable with, you know, colors and indentations and stuff.\u00a0 This is when I discovered Notepad++<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/notepad-plus-plus.org\">http:\/\/notepad-plus-plus.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This program is lightweight, and supports all the programming languages I care about.\u00a0 Check out the site above &#8211; there is even a little how to which lets you replace your current Notepad application completely!\u00a0 Once you use it for a bit, you will probably come back and set it up permanently.\u00a0 Enjoy!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"212\" height=\"261\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-310\" title=\"cameleon\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/cameleon.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the past decade or so, I have been stuck using the default Notepad application that comes pre-installed on every Windows computer.\u00a0 For my purposes, the &#8216;Development Suite&#8217; applications such as the MS &#8216;Visual&#8217; tools and other development environments are too much &#8211; heavy and complicated.\u00a0 As I am usually working on a single file [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":310,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tips-and-tricks","category-windows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}