Let's talk Text Editors

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What’s the point of using text editors like Sublime Text? I’ve heard Packages are needed to use on properly, but what are packages for in the first place? I am so far mainly used to Notepad, and freecodecamp and codepen of course. So can anybody please elaborate? I am not sure of this stuff.

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@Brijesh

If you are comparing text editors like sublime text with Notepad, then check below

Sublime Text kind of text editors provide Intelligence which you are coding, Notepad will not do that

Your code is auto aligned as per your requirement, no need of manual alignments

Look and feel is also good and structured with compare to NotePad

Hope this helps you

Thanks
Srini

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Thanks! Could you explain what are Packages? I don’t understand it very well. Sorry.

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@Brijesh

Check as below

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Hope this helps you

Thanks

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Notepad is a simple text editor. You can use it for web dev. But these new text/ code editors like VS Code, Atom, Sublime have a lot of features that are going to ease the job for example, they have code completion, syntax check smart suggestions etc. So, they greatly improve the workflow.
Now lets talk about “packages”. These packages allow you to add even more functionality. For example, I use VS Code that comes with HTML, Css and javascript linter. But I can additionally add a package for python, c, c++ etc so that it can now check syntax, show suggestions or complete the code. There are packages even for changing the theme and customize the look of the editor.

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Thanks @Srini84 and @hrs070 . The explanations were of great help to me.
Wish you a great day ahead!

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you too buddy :smile:

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