Notepad++ VS WinMerge

Notepad++ Reviews

WinMerge Reviews

Notepad++ mentions (168)

• Regex is not your enemy

  So, the only option left is to use regular expressions. You need a text editor that can "Find" and "Replace" using them - my choice is Notepad++ (for Windows people like me - shortcut Ctrl+H). - Source: dev.to / about 2 months ago

• Notepad on Windows 11 is finally getting a character count

  If you sling text around regularly, why not treat yourself to a decent text editor? Both Notepad++ (Windows) and Notepadqq (Linux) are free, open-source, and a hell of a lot netter than Notepad. Source: 3 months ago

• Creating a 'Proper Nouns' List

  The most common way I use it is to right click a note and open a note in the default app which I have set .MD to open in Notepad++ which is a text editor with regex search/replace. Source: 3 months ago

• Anybody have surfcam experience?

  Notepad ++ is similar to notepad but has a lot more features. There are more features but different colored text and the ability to search are a couple examples. And it's free. Source: 3 months ago

• i cant open my ecg files

  TXT stands for text, and that's not what you open with Excel. TXT can be opened by notepad, Notapad++ or on Linux simply use cat. Source: 3 months ago

WinMerge mentions (28)

• Windows NT on 600MHz machine opens apps instantly. What happened?

  I use WinMerge[1] a lot, and it's always impressed me how it immediately opens to a useable state. So it's absolutely still possible to write Windows software that can open instantly. I think the biggest issue, which multiple other comments have identified, is that people just don't care. Apps open fast enough these days, and no one is pushing back on developers to improve their app's startup performance. [1]:... - Source: Hacker News / 8 months ago

• Two HDDs that should have identical data on them have a 50GB discrepancy, can't figure out where the files are

  I’ve used winmerge before and had good results comparing drives. Source: 12 months ago

• Program that deletes files that match an MD5 hash?

  However, if you're looking to compare files that already exist, you can use something like WinMerge. Source: 12 months ago

• Mirroring my 12 TB Drive. What do I need to check to ensure all data is transferred without corruption?

  I use Robocopy to preserve the original timestamps (using the /COPY:DAT and /DCOPY:DAT arguments) and WinMerge for doing a subsequent binary compare of the source/destination (sorting the results column by which files are different). Source: 12 months ago

• Compare two Salesforce exports

  I haven't used this one but for example https://winmerge.org. Source: about 1 year ago