The search in Notepad++ is irritating, when you open an file of size more than 20 MB and start searching an word, it gets stuck and when you try to click out side the find window, it got Hanged up.
Same problem with Find in files(including plugin), if the Find in Files option searches in background allowing the user to modfify the exsisting file then it would be very good.
Thanks,
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I frequently use Notepad++ to search very large text files, some of them as big as 70 megabytes. This worked resonably well until I upgraded from an older verson to version 4.9.2. What happened in that version is that the search would take forever to find the first instance of a string even if it was on the first page because it wanted to search the entire document for all instances of the string at once in order to highlight them all (sort of like Firefox does). While this new feature may work great on normal (read small) size files, it kills the usefulness of search on large files. I would like to see this feature be an option that I can turn off. In the meantime I had to backgrade to version 4.8.5 which does not have this feature.
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The search in Notepad++ is irritating, when you open an file of size more than 20 MB and start searching an word, it gets stuck and when you try to click out side the find window, it got Hanged up.
Same problem with Find in files(including plugin), if the Find in Files option searches in background allowing the user to modfify the exsisting file then it would be very good.
Thanks,
I frequently use Notepad++ to search very large text files, some of them as big as 70 megabytes. This worked resonably well until I upgraded from an older verson to version 4.9.2. What happened in that version is that the search would take forever to find the first instance of a string even if it was on the first page because it wanted to search the entire document for all instances of the string at once in order to highlight them all (sort of like Firefox does). While this new feature may work great on normal (read small) size files, it kills the usefulness of search on large files. I would like to see this feature be an option that I can turn off. In the meantime I had to backgrade to version 4.8.5 which does not have this feature.
You actually _can_ turn it off, its in preferences under MISC, named Smart highlighting.
If that solves the problem then that's a good tip. It probably deserves to be in the FAQ.