I opened a 90 MB large file in Notepad++, and what happened is that he ate about 200MB of RAM to get it up. And it took him a while too. Luckily, I'm at work. Had I done this at home (my computer at home has much less memory), I would have probably removed your program from my disk right away, writing it over with zeroes and random data three times, after 10 minutes of anguish and pain wasted on trying to kill him. (And another 10 trying to kill the imbecile dumprep.exe process, that was trying to make an image of the programs whole memory space, I guess, because it ate up to a 100 MBs before I managed to kill it, at a rate of about 2 megs per second. But that's MS, noone expects quality from them.)
I know the goal is a simple program, but some sort of smarter handling for large files would be great. I now feel fear before i choose to open any file in Notepad++ :)
Josip Bakić
Zagreb, CROATIA
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you should check your options in notepad++ first and see that you can disable that option.
I'm using it for a few months now and i must say i can't miss it anymore. It doesn't only replace notepad...it has a lot of quality usefull things in it.
Regards,
Tim
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An option for read only viewing of large files, such as viewing log files, you can use BareTail (baremetalsoft.com). There's a free version, no install 220k exe, can view files > 2 GB in real-time such when "tailing" a log file.
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Will do. Notepad++ is uninstalled from my machine. The peak of stupidity was when I closed it with a log file opened in it. The next time I started Notepad++, I had to wait for him to load the file back into memory. Horribly irresponsible for a program that tries to take Notepad's place, which is not a small task. Overkill in features, and underkill (is that a word?) in elementary functionality.
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Hello!
I opened a 90 MB large file in Notepad++, and what happened is that he ate about 200MB of RAM to get it up. And it took him a while too. Luckily, I'm at work. Had I done this at home (my computer at home has much less memory), I would have probably removed your program from my disk right away, writing it over with zeroes and random data three times, after 10 minutes of anguish and pain wasted on trying to kill him. (And another 10 trying to kill the imbecile dumprep.exe process, that was trying to make an image of the programs whole memory space, I guess, because it ate up to a 100 MBs before I managed to kill it, at a rate of about 2 megs per second. But that's MS, noone expects quality from them.)
I know the goal is a simple program, but some sort of smarter handling for large files would be great. I now feel fear before i choose to open any file in Notepad++ :)
Josip Bakić
Zagreb, CROATIA
Josip,
you should check your options in notepad++ first and see that you can disable that option.
I'm using it for a few months now and i must say i can't miss it anymore. It doesn't only replace notepad...it has a lot of quality usefull things in it.
Regards,
Tim
An option for read only viewing of large files, such as viewing log files, you can use BareTail (baremetalsoft.com). There's a free version, no install 220k exe, can view files > 2 GB in real-time such when "tailing" a log file.
Will do. Notepad++ is uninstalled from my machine. The peak of stupidity was when I closed it with a log file opened in it. The next time I started Notepad++, I had to wait for him to load the file back into memory. Horribly irresponsible for a program that tries to take Notepad's place, which is not a small task. Overkill in features, and underkill (is that a word?) in elementary functionality.