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And yet, this text editor too loads the whole file into memory when you open it. No modern text editor really should do that and support files of essentially arbitrary size by loading at most a few gigabytes around the cursor.
Notepad++ is the single biggest reason I prefer a windows pc over a macbook. It's such a no nonsense app with exactly the right mix of features and usability. One of these days I'll ditch vs code in favour of np++ for all my editing needs.
Does anybody know if the search window is still a new popup window? Something that always made me prefer to go use other editors. Or perhaps if incremental search support regular expressions?
I would just keep pressing ctrl+n whenever I needed a fresh file and never close anything.
My 17 year old high school senior told me that the suckiest thing about their school-issued laptop is lack of Notepad++. I teared up and my hacker dad skillboard got another achievement! I told him that it has a portable install and this weekend he's getting it on via Gdrive upload. Nothing will stop better editor from showing up on school machine!
The amount of random malware run/installed by non-technical users falls off a cliff when they don't have to solve these problems for themselves.