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bgb_ca@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
And work bosses saw a news story on this and banned the app outright :( can anyone suggest a replacement that is not paid and has features useful for searching lots of large logs files quickly for keywords?
ohshit604@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
mathemachristian@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
Emacs
tehn00bi@lemmy.world 1 month ago
He’s asking for a text editor, not to join a cult.
helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Rename the shortcut to notepad++2?
DacoTaco@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Ive always had notepad++ crash on large files or xml’s with no newlines. I use sublime in those cases :)
That said, as a developer, notepad++ is a very often used tool haha
how_we_burned@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
I regularly open CSVs in the range of 500MB to 2GB in notepad++ without any problem…
cley_faye@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Notepad++ installed from any package manager was perfectly fine and safe.
purplemonkeymad@programming.dev 1 month ago
Well those would have included the update checker. So if you installed from a package manager, then let it update when prompted for the new version, you could still have been at risk.
cley_faye@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I don’t know how most package managers on windows work, but usually, auto updates are disabled by default for software that comes from one. For example, Firefox installed using APT on various linux distro will not auto-update out of it.
I vaguely remember chocolatey packages not really doing that, causing mismatch between installed versions and its internal database, though, so maybe it wasn’t that good of a solution.
bgb_ca@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
I know.
CeeBee_Eh@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Sublime 3
ieGod@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Awesome choice but one crucial detail is that commercial use requires a license.
ICastFist@programming.dev 1 month ago
I guess Geany could work?
bgb_ca@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
I downloaded that one today. It will work for now but it’s missing a couple of n++ features I use.
ICastFist@programming.dev 1 month ago
Which ones? I rarely explore all the tools and features that these text editors offer, so I’m really curious
kablez@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Zed! Fastest GUI editor out there other than Sublime Text.
midas22@lemmy.wtf 1 month ago
I’m only using Sublime Text and the Notepad that is included with Windows. Not sure exactly what you’re looking for.
xuteloops@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
NotepadQQ 😆
Beyonder_Extreme@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Kate
MadPsyentist@lemmy.nz 1 month ago
+1 for Kate. I think its ment to be an acronym for KDE Advanced text editor but its a linux program that feels very close to notepad++ and will handle large files with gusto