Goodbye Atom, Hello Notepad++

A while back Atom announced they were sunsetting on 12/15/22, but I was out of the loop and didn't realize this was happening until 12/14/22. Prior to Atom I coded using Notepad++ and I still occasionally use it, so I decided to see if I could replicate my Atom environment in it and switch back to using NPP full time.

Plugins & Settings

• There is of course a dark theme
• Folder as Workspace pulls my files up in a right-side nav bar and I can run cmd from there.
• MarkdownViewer++ allows markdown viewing/conversion.
• Snippets Plugin allows snippets.
• JSTOOL JSON prettifier/viewer (new)
• ImgTag ended up being sort of what I needed for Image insertion. I got kinda spoiled with whatever Atom plugin I was using that allowed me to copy-paste images into the editor directly.

Emoji Picker

I wasn't able to find a plugin like Atom's autocomplete-emoji plugin, which I updated to accomodate my beloved Mutant Standard emojis. Then I remembered... gasp I built an emoji picker already! (emoji.get ) Anyway I updated my index to include the filename for pseudo searches. I decided lunr.js was too robust for my needs (read: couldn't figure out how to use it ) and realized what I actually needed was basic HTML element filtering. I hacked together good-enough-for-me Javascript list filtering based on W3's Filter/Search List tutorial. Now I can filter with a search bar and click the button to get the image tag. Witness the sweet jams of my labors.