It doesnt hang, its simply taking a lot of time, column support in Notpead++ is rather slow, and its not easy to improve on that (or else it would have already been done :))
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Most of the time the program will hang when I try to paste a column with 16000 rows on top of another column of 16000 rows.
It doesnt hang, its simply taking a lot of time, column support in Notpead++ is rather slow, and its not easy to improve on that (or else it would have already been done :))