If the Git.exe hasn't been configured you will get a 'file not found' error.īelow is a screenshot of my Windows settings. You may also need to set the Git.exe path in the GitSCM plugin settings. On Windows I had to add the Git command to my path so it could be used via the command prompt. It looks a bit complicated to get running on Notepad++ running on Ubuntu since it is running under the Wine environment and is expecting to find Windows settings, so my review is strictly applicable to Notepad++ on Windows. There is a plugin that integrates with Tortoise Git called GitSCM. If you Google Notepad++ and Git, you'll find a lot of information on how to use Notepad++ as your default editor for Git. Notepad++ does not have built in Git or GitHub Integration. I will look at both Git and GitHub integrations - see my article explaining the difference between git and github.

At a minimum, I expect that common actions like creating branches, committing code and managing code on remotes can be done within the IDE. My criteria for Git integration is to see how much can be done within the editor itself without the need to resort to command line. As of the writing of this article Sublime Text has release version 4 and moving forward with semantic versioning - so no more major version releases. Once you have a license, Sublime Text can be installed and used on as many of your systems as you like. Notepad++ is freely available, however Sublime Text is a paid product at $99USD, which gives you 3 years of updates.

I use simple project examples in C and Python, HTML, CSS and Javascript to get some comparison breadth.įor this comparison I am using Sublime Text 3 installed on Ubuntu 20.04 and Notepad++ v8.1.9 on the same machine with language specific plugins when available. My approach to conduct this evaluation was to pick the IDE features that I use most often and compare the experience between Notepad++ and Sublime Text 3. In this post I take Sublime Text up against Notepad++ using the following 7 IDE criteria: So which is the better choice for development? And coming in at $99 USD, is Sublime Text worth paying for? These editors run on Windows, Mac and Linux. Sublime Text 3 is a commercial tool built by Sublime HQ, and Notepad++ is written in C++ by Don Ho. Sublime Text and Notepad++ are two great editors for coding.

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