In praise of notepad++
In praise of notepad++ as a poetry-editing tool
1. Crisp and clean plain-text only interface. Not cludgy or gooey.
2. Tab-completion of common words like texts or IM's.
3. HYUGE: Absolutely unintrusive autosave.
-It just stays right there, no "which draft", no weird auto-adjusments, no wondering where it saves.
4. HYUGE: Tabs as in tabbed browsing.
Multiple docs open at once.
Just click to move from one to the next -or ctrl+pagedown / ctrl+pageup
Get stuck on one poem, ctrl+pageup and work on the next
5. Line manipulation:
hold ctrl+shift, then arrow up/down to move a whole line intact up/down in the order of your poem.
*OR SELECT ENTIRE SECTIONS and move them up/down. No cut scroll, paste, etc.
6. Since it produces .txt files, they're readable by anything anywhere.
7. There are a gazillion other tweaks and customizations. The unique thing about this is that it's actually a code writer's/developer's tool. Applying it to verse is fascinatingly fun.
8. FREE FREE FREE
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