Amadawn - 2008-05-15

Hi again :-)

Notepad++ 4.9 has an awesome feature where if you select a word it will automatically highlight all other occurrences of that same word.

However, when you work with very long text files (in the order of 100000 lines, and several million chars) this seems to be quite slow. There is a very noticeable delay between the moment you double click on a word to select it and the moment at which notepad++ selects the word and then highlights other occurrences of that word.

At the very least, notepad++ should first highlight the word (and do it immediately) and then highlight the other occurrences of the word. That way the delay would be less noticeable.

Also (and perhaps you are already doing this) I think that notepad++ could search first withing the text that is being currently displayed on the screen (which should not be more than 40 or 50 lines) and then search everywhere else in the document. This would give the illusion of the search being really fast. Obviously this may not be technically feasible, but in which case I beg your pardon!

Cheers,

Amadawn