Proposal for making notepad++ more agile
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Hi,
I like the soft!
Sometimes i need to text replace in large sql dumps...
well there are tools like grep/egrep but i do not want
to miss the good other features of npp. When it comes
to editing such a file, the gui is not as responding
as one is used to.
Is there a way to improve npp somehow so that e.g.
only the visible parts of the textfile are rendered?
Or whatever might cause npp to keep busy for the little
while when editing large files.
That would be a nice!
Bye,
Klaus
I think this would be interesting but also hard to implement. Also you have to consider that people want to move through a document fast so you have to load a buffer either side of the current view. I'm not sure that the underlying Scintilla framework has any features like this and I think it a major new way of doing things that it might take some time.
I guess what I am trying to say is that I wonder if it is worth the dev's time. They have plenty of other things to think about. Hopefully though it might come under the microscope by somebody.