And work bosses saw a news story on this and banned the app outright :( can anyone suggest a replacement that is not paid and has features useful for searching lots of large logs files quickly for keywords?
+1 for Kate. I think its ment to be an acronym for KDE Advanced text editor but its a linux program that feels very close to notepad++ and will handle large files with gusto
And work bosses saw a news story on this and banned the app outright :( can anyone suggest a replacement that is not paid and has features useful for searching lots of large logs files quickly for keywords?
I’m only using Sublime Text and the Notepad that is included with Windows. Not sure exactly what you’re looking for.
Notepad++ installed from any package manager was perfectly fine and safe.
I know.
NotepadQQ 😆
Emacs
Rename the shortcut to notepad++2?
Kate
+1 for Kate. I think its ment to be an acronym for KDE Advanced text editor but its a linux program that feels very close to notepad++ and will handle large files with gusto
Sublime 3
Awesome choice but one crucial detail is that commercial use requires a license.
VSCodium.
I guess Geany could work?
I downloaded that one today. It will work for now but it’s missing a couple of n++ features I use.
Zed! Fastest GUI editor out there other than Sublime Text.
Emacs
He’s asking for a text editor, not to join a cult. /s
Ive always had notepad++ crash on large files or xml’s with no newlines. I use sublime in those cases :)
That said, as a developer, notepad++ is a very often used tool haha
I regularly open CSVs in the range of 500MB to 2GB in notepad++ without any problem…