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Did anyone use Notepad++ instead of Notepad?I heard that Notepad++ is better than normal notepad cause supports these languages:C, C++, Resource File, Java, Assembler, MS INI File, HTML, Javascript, PHP, ASP, Pascal, Python, Perl, Objective C, LUA, Fortran, NSIS, VHDL, SQL, VB and BATCH.

I got Notepad++ for the advertised advantages above (I'm taking a fortran class). I'm sure it works fine on the languages that people use but it color-coded and comic-sansed my code to hell, plus it does none of the handy-dandy looking things I've seen people do in emacs, so I'm _rather_ pissed off with the program.

But it appears to be good for some of the other languages. And I can't recommend anything nicer. Except for the normal Notepad (I think it's great).

Nope. In Windows I use Notepad2. It starts as quickly as Notepad and has tons of useful features, like syntax highlighting for mentioned languages plus a bunch more.

I use GEdit, in Ubuntu, and it does all that cool stuff.

i thought the original notepad could already edit those files?

Whoa, FORTRAN? Really? I'm curious, what things are still programmed today using it?

What about EditPad Pro. It's pretty cool. It's got tons of awesome features. Too many to name!

Of course it can. It's about things that help speed up programming and syntax highlighting.

I use Gedit in Ubuntu too, but it doesn't have all of Notepad2's features. I got used to it, though.

I think I tried that one. Doesn't it start up pretty slowly?

Universities live in some kind of voids where people still believe Fortran is a wonderful answer to all problems Scientific calculation, parallel programmin + simulations, and probably not much besides that. The newest standard is from 2003 or something, though, but at least we were being taught F90-95.

I took the course as a curiosity, though. I doubt I'll be making parallel calculations to simulate the behavior of a ball falling from 1 ft for 9th-graders (not everybody can be a real scientist, some have to become teachers )