Comment on Microsoft is killing WordPad in Windows after 28 years

• 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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      • Cavemanfreak@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Then it will depend on if we are allowed to download it at all. Can’t be sure about that.

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