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Only thing I used it for was when older versions of Notepad couldn’t handle larger text files. Now it can. So, no loss to me. Notepad going away would suck, that does at least get occasional use although Notepad++ is far superior.

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Cavemanfreak@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Notepad++ can’t handle as big files for some reason. At work we have files that can reach 5-600 MB, and NP++ can’t always open those, but notepad handles then with no problem.

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- adchevrier@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I had the same problem but noticed that I was using the 32 bit version of notepad++, installed the 64 bits instead and had no problems with large files
  
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  - Cavemanfreak@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    That might actually be something to bring up with IT…
    
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- TWeaK@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I’ve opened 4GB files with notepad++ before. Sure, it takes several minutes (I basically have to go away and do something else, or leave it loading in the background) but it gets there, eventually.
  
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  - Cavemanfreak@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    NP++ straight up tells us it’s too big to be opened…
    
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- Ghoelian@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Tbf npp has much more functionality than regular notepad.
  
  Just the syntax highlighting alone probably dramatically lowers the amount of text it can render.
  
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  - Cavemanfreak@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Yep, I prefer it when it works. Highlighting plus line numbers helps a ton.
    
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- Valmond@lemmy.mindoki.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Just upload it in the cloud and use Microsoft online word!
  
  \s
  
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  - Cavemanfreak@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Hahahahaha, hahahaha.
    
    Hahahahaha
    
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- IDeserveToBeLoved@szmer.info ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  With bigger files or searching in files where there’s a lot of data I found sublimetext to be much more efficient
  
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  - Cavemanfreak@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    I use sublime at home, but work is pretty strict with what we can use.
    
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- Malfeasant@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  That sounds backwards… I occasionally have to open log files of 1 gig or more, and notepad++ gets sluggish, but is usable, while notepad just hangs until I kill it…
  
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  - Cavemanfreak@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Someone suggested that we might have the 32-bit version, and that that might be the problem. I have no way of checking for a few months though, since I’m on parental leave until January. Because our NP++ just says that the files are too big to be opened. Sidenote: Sometimes it can open files that are a bit bigger, and sometimes only a bit smaller… So it’s not a hard limit that is the same at all times.
    
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- Irkam@jlai.lu ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Use Vim.
  
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- grayman@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Klogg. I always avoid Microsoft when possible.
  
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  - Cavemanfreak@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Would if I could, but work is pretty strict with what we can use.
    
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    grayman@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    It’s a portable app and runs in use space. So no install. I’m in the same boat with work. Open source apps are great for just running an app.
    
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9point6@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Genuinely curious—why would someone choose to use notepad++ over something like VSCode in 2023?

I can’t say I’ve used n++ in over a decade when I switched to sublime around 2010, moved again to VSCode about 5 years ago

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- UlrikHD@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  VSCode uses electron so it’s not exactly a lightweight text editor, way overkill if you just want to read a simple .txt. Add on the fact if you got way too many extension, it will be even heavier.
  
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  - nekusoul@lemmy.nekusoul.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    That’s true, although from my experience is VSCode one of the very few electron apps that still start within fractions of a second, even with a handful of extensions. On my machine VSCode (with 38 extensions) is ready to use before the GNOME launch animation has finished.
    
    That said, things are probably a bit different on machines with limited RAM.
    
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- thecrotch@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  N++ can search for a string in a directory full of files, that’s what I use it for. Also helpful for showing unprintable characters like linefeeds or changing bit order mode, I’m not sure vs code can do any of that.
  
  For writing code, though, I do use vs code
  
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  - 9point6@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    IIRC you can do both of those with VSCode, I think even without any extensions too!
    
    The search sidebar has include and exclude fields for directories to search in.
    
    For showing unprintable characters, I think it’s split into two settings: one for whitespace one for control characters like null and bell
    
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    thecrotch@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    I wasn’t aware of that, I’ll have to check it out. Thank you.
    
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- AustralianSimon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  NP++ is more lightweight and has some useful stuff builtin and easier to justify to IT dept to than a full IDE 🤷
  
  Personally I prefer pycharm and Atom for my home needs.
  
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  - 9point6@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Justifying it to IT makes a lot of sense actually.
    
    Interesting you’re using atom, actually! Is it still getting much love? I assumed development would go by the wayside once Microsoft bought GitHub a few years ago
    
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    AustralianSimon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Yeah it’s on my personal machine, I use it alongside pycharm but it’s (atom) not my main IDE, I keep it because of a few things it does. I disagree vscode is the same, it’s a poorer implementation of pycharm IMHO.
    
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