Hi everyone, I am a longtime Notepad ++ user trying to get ahold of the author. You see, my company, as well as myself personally use Notepad++ essentially as our IDE for programming. I'm a sysmin by trade, programming mostly PHP/HTML not a trained programmer, so Notepad++ suits me far better than environments like visual studio.
The long and short of the story is that for years now we have been using Notepad++ to develop everything we write, and I feel like a freeloader. I want to give back to the project, (donations, yay!) but am also hoping I can coax the author into a little bit of help with what I am sure if I RTFMed hard enough I could do myself: create an installer with all the options we like pre-set.
The hope is that if the author can help us with that minor problem, we can provide him/her with a reasonable amount of beer money etc. etc.
I am also trying to get information on the author's preferences for "mentions" in open source projects developped entirely using Notepad++. Three years of coding at work has given rise to a fairly sophisticated order/process/shipping tracking system with nifty gizmos like due date/eta estimations, a fully opt-in compliant mass mailer (for sending out the company newsletter,) intranet, Active Directory and Live Communications Server integration, with added blue crystals. It's pretty rough at this point, having been about a dozen different projects crammed together into one FrankenIntranet, but I am taking the next few months to refine it, and then I am hoping to release it to sourceforge, (haven't chosen a liscence yet,) and maybe charge for installs/support/pre-configured VMs if anyone grows an interest in the project.
But it would be really wrong, I think, to post a project like that without mentionning in there somewhere Notepad++, without which my feeble programming skills could not have created that monstrosity.
So, if someone could point out for me how I can get ahold of the individual who runs this project, (I can't seem to find it on the site, perhaps I am blind,) I would be grateful.
Thank you all!
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No, I hadn't. Frankly, I have never actually used sourceforge beyond downloading items from it. THank you muchly for pointing me in the right direction!
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People (including me) usually just uses the softwares without expressing their gratitude.
Nice to know this project is appreciated enthusiastically by someone.
Notepad++ project stands on the shoulder of a giant - Scintilla edit component (another open source project), enriched by numerous of brilliant plugins ( http://sourceforge.net/projects/npp-plugins/ ), and contributed by a lot of volunteers who take their time to translate Notepad++/answer the questions on the forums.
So its success (if we can say that) is based on open source's approach and free software's spirit.
Feel free to ask your questions and contribute your knowledge on the forums. That's how this open source project work :)
Don
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we use the BRS custom user-defined language...
we copy the brs.api file from c:\program files\notepad++\apis\ to j:\_install\notepad++
and the whole dirtory from ...(user profile)\applicationdata\notepd++ to the same place
that's how we update the installation set of options
then we have a batch file we run after installation of N++ on a new PC
install.bat contains:
xCopy J:\_Install\Notepad++\BRS.API C:\Progra~1\Notepad++\Plugins\APIs\*.*
xCopy J:\_install\Notepad++\Notepad++\*.* "%USERPROFILE%\Application Data\Notepad++\*.*"
it's that simple.
it's a little dif. if you have roaming profile or vista.. but that works for default installs on XP.
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Hi everyone, I am a longtime Notepad ++ user trying to get ahold of the author. You see, my company, as well as myself personally use Notepad++ essentially as our IDE for programming. I'm a sysmin by trade, programming mostly PHP/HTML not a trained programmer, so Notepad++ suits me far better than environments like visual studio.
The long and short of the story is that for years now we have been using Notepad++ to develop everything we write, and I feel like a freeloader. I want to give back to the project, (donations, yay!) but am also hoping I can coax the author into a little bit of help with what I am sure if I RTFMed hard enough I could do myself: create an installer with all the options we like pre-set.
The hope is that if the author can help us with that minor problem, we can provide him/her with a reasonable amount of beer money etc. etc.
I am also trying to get information on the author's preferences for "mentions" in open source projects developped entirely using Notepad++. Three years of coding at work has given rise to a fairly sophisticated order/process/shipping tracking system with nifty gizmos like due date/eta estimations, a fully opt-in compliant mass mailer (for sending out the company newsletter,) intranet, Active Directory and Live Communications Server integration, with added blue crystals. It's pretty rough at this point, having been about a dozen different projects crammed together into one FrankenIntranet, but I am taking the next few months to refine it, and then I am hoping to release it to sourceforge, (haven't chosen a liscence yet,) and maybe charge for installs/support/pre-configured VMs if anyone grows an interest in the project.
But it would be really wrong, I think, to post a project like that without mentionning in there somewhere Notepad++, without which my feeble programming skills could not have created that monstrosity.
So, if someone could point out for me how I can get ahold of the individual who runs this project, (I can't seem to find it on the site, perhaps I am blind,) I would be grateful.
Thank you all!
just thought, you posted in the wrong thread? nothing mention with the thema!
You talk about yourself?
Aha, I DO have a sourceforge login. The "nobody" trying to contact the Notepad++ author was me. Please drop me a line!
I guess you are indeed blind.
Did you searched in here:
Project - Summary and under Project Details -> then Project Admin??
Or, you say you're using Notepad++ (are you?), what is it all "About"?
...now that one I should have thought of, and feel appropriately stupid for not having done so. Long day, no coffee.
No coffee is no bad, long day is.
No, I hadn't. Frankly, I have never actually used sourceforge beyond downloading items from it. THank you muchly for pointing me in the right direction!
People (including me) usually just uses the softwares without expressing their gratitude.
Nice to know this project is appreciated enthusiastically by someone.
Notepad++ project stands on the shoulder of a giant - Scintilla edit component (another open source project), enriched by numerous of brilliant plugins ( http://sourceforge.net/projects/npp-plugins/ ), and contributed by a lot of volunteers who take their time to translate Notepad++/answer the questions on the forums.
So its success (if we can say that) is based on open source's approach and free software's spirit.
Feel free to ask your questions and contribute your knowledge on the forums. That's how this open source project work :)
Don
we use the BRS custom user-defined language...
we copy the brs.api file from c:\program files\notepad++\apis\ to j:\_install\notepad++
and the whole dirtory from ...(user profile)\applicationdata\notepd++ to the same place
that's how we update the installation set of options
then we have a batch file we run after installation of N++ on a new PC
install.bat contains:
xCopy J:\_Install\Notepad++\BRS.API C:\Progra~1\Notepad++\Plugins\APIs\*.*
xCopy J:\_install\Notepad++\Notepad++\*.* "%USERPROFILE%\Application Data\Notepad++\*.*"
it's that simple.
it's a little dif. if you have roaming profile or vista.. but that works for default installs on XP.