I see a pattern with Notepad++. Every time you update it, it becomes more unstable.

@7root Someone like me, who is using NPP for their hobby projects and is not prepared to spend money on commercial software, and who has tried the alternatives only to find that they are even worse. If you're so not illiterate, perhaps you could suggest what to use then, instead of offending all NPP users. It needs to be free, have a working FTP browser, works in 32-bit Windows 7 and it mustn't take ages to install/configure/learn. Any suggestions I've had from other devRanters so far have failed on at least one of these points. Sure enough, NPP sucks, but I'm sticking to it until there's a viable alternative for me.

@7root I tried that, but it didn't work for some reason. That was a while ago so I could give it another go. Thanks for the tip anyway.
For the offending part, what were you implying then if not that anyone who uses Npp is an illiterate teacher?

@7root BTW, dows VS Code have an FTP browser. I'm looking at screenshots of VS Code, but can't find one with an FTP browser. If it doesn't, that's a deal-breaker for me. The things I code in my sparetime are nearly 100% web based.

@7root What do you mean by "salty"?

@7root Had a lok at the link you shared and yes, I think that could work for me. Will try it out shortly. Thanks for the tip.

@7root Doesn't work though. Installed it and then followed the instructions to configure it.
1. Press 'F1'
2. Enter 'ftp-simple'
All it says is "No results found". Tried restarting VS Code, still no joy.

Any other suggestions?

@7root The docs for FTP-Simple suck. It isn't that *simple* to set up. NPP is much more simple. There you're up and running in matter of seconds, not hours, and it sports an FTP browser to the left just the way I want it. Sure, NPP is buggy, but it shines when it comes to ease of use! As a full-time dev and father of two, I don't really have enough sparetime to spend on stupidly cumbersome tools that take hours to configure. Insult me and other NPP and call us "illiterate teachers" as much as you want, but I'm going to stick with it until there's a viable hassle-free alternative that actually works.

And so, a rant about Notepad++ turned into a song of praise :D

As for VS Code, this is the problem I'm talking about: https://github.com/Microsoft/...