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There is no other third party text editor more efficient and lightweight than Notepad++ on Windows. I only use Notepad++ on Windows, to save my CPU cycles and R
by bitigchi 5y ago
There is no other third party text editor more efficient and lightweight than Notepad++ on Windows. I only use Notepad++ on Windows, to save my CPU cycles and RAM.
- ComodoHacker 5y agoSciTE is more lightweight. Efficiency is about personal config and habits, though.
- ale42 5y agoSciTE is super light, but has less functions. Notepad++ is based on the same engine (Scintilla), though. Both are infinitely lighter than Electron-based editors...
- TonyTrapp 5y agoPSPad is very similar in both regards! If you are looking for a lightweight editor on Windows, give both a try. Though I found that PSPad has become a bit more buggy in more recent versions since 64-bit support was introduced (which, I think, has lead to several components being exchanged or upgraded, which caused these bugs). I ought to give Notepad++ a try again.
- maupin 5y agoPSPad used to be my editor on Windows until they added crapware to the installer. No idea if they still have it or not, as I immediately jumped ship to Notepad++ when I saw it.
- mjrpes 5y agoPSPad was nice, but I switched to Notepad++ years ago because PSPad would crash every so often and I'd lose whatever work I had done since the last backup. Notepad++ has never crashed for me.
- TonyTrapp 5y agoOne reason why I like PSPad is that I can use it for three main tasks - editing text files, diffing text files and hex-editing files. Notepad++ seems to have a hex editor plugin, do you know if it's any good?
- mjrpes 5y agoIt seems fine as a basic hex editor, but I haven't used it that much. Not sure what would happen if you gave it a large file. I've been happy with HxD as a dedicated hex editor that works well with large files.
- yardie 5y agoMicrosoft engineers rewrote the notepad.exe app. You can load a 10GB text file. Something you can’t do in almost any other text editor.
- MauranKilom 5y agoI just tried opening a 10 GB zip file in notepad.exe and it told me it can't open files this large. And then a second message box "Operation completed successfully." (lol). How can I tell whether I have the rewritten version? (It also hangs on opening a 500 MB file, too. Version dialog just gives me my Win10 version.)
- capableweb 5y agoyardie said text file, not binary files. Not sure what text editor doesn't bark at a 10GB binary file. Probably Sublime would be alone in handling it, but don't have it in front of me right now to test.
- tokai 5y ago>text file, not binary files there is a difference?
- capableweb 5y agoFor most intents and purposes, yes.
- im3w1l 5y agoSome editors choke on long lines. A binary file can have long stretches without newline.
- unicodepepper 5y agoA text file only contains data that represents characters on the screen, while “binary file” is used to refer to any other file that isn’t meant to be viewed or edited as text. If you open a (small) image file with notepad you will see a lot of gibberish. This is what happens when you try to view a binary (in other words, non-text) file as text.
- ZeWaren 5y agoSublime Text is also a pleasure to use, and works on both Linux and Windows.
- bluedino 5y agoAnd Mac!
- ziml77 5y agoSublime Text has been my choice for years. Most often I'm in an IDE or in VSCode, but when I need to inspect or edit a file quickly or find-and-replace across an entire directory I use Sublime. It's nice and snappy.
- jjkmk 5y agoI moved from Notepad++ to Sublime Text over a decade ago, its been my day to day for both Systems / Network Engineering and Web Development.
- vbezhenar 5y agoCheck out EditPad Pro. I really like it.
- myfonj 5y agoHave you ever tried AkelPad [0]? Several years ago I tried loads of "lightweight" graphical text editors for Windows, searching for something with fast start-up and ability to load (and edit) humongous text files. Been using PSPad back then, with NPP as a side-kick, but when it came to dealing with super large files, this editor came as the most performant and reliable. It's data and memory footprint is super tiny and is quite extensible. I've never used it as a primary editor so cannot speak much about features (yes it seems dated and configurations seems wonky) but really proved to be workhorse for me. (Nowadays I mostly live in VSCode but still keep this AkelPad (and Foxe [1] / First Object editor for XML files) around when necessity to deal with something huge arises.) [0] http://akelpad.sourceforge.net/ http://akelpad.sourceforge.net/ [1] http://www.firstobject.com/dn_editor.htm http://www.firstobject.com/dn_editor.htm
- generationP 5y agoAkelPad is great for big files, but at some point it stopped updating the date of a file when I edit it, which has been causing trouble for my backup scripts and for syncing. Is this a known issue?
- myfonj 5y agoHave you tried unchecking "Menu > Options > [x] Save file time"? Is seems it actually means Keep file time.
- generationP 5y agoHah, that works! I blame it on the author being Russian.
- simplyinfinity 5y agoGive EmEditor[0] a try, I can load gigabytes of text and edit with no issue, it's fast and snappy. Has a bunch of cool features, like visualising CSVs as tables :) [0] https://www.emeditor.com/ https://www.emeditor.com/
- nick_ 5y agoEmEditor is so much better than Notepad++ it's not even close.
- magixx 5y agoThe killer feature for me besides the lightweightness of Notepad++ is it's ability to remember what files were last opened and also "save" unsaved tabs. I end up using it like a glorified sticky tool which I know windows did have at some point, but Notepad++ provides the same functionality with a much better experience.
- nikanj 5y agoMy biggest complaint is getting the ”An update is available” notification pretty much every time I restart it. I wish there was a ”stable channel” for it
- marcosdumay 5y agoNo need for a "stable channel". Just download the updates on the background, apply them on launch, and stop showing the notification.
- jakub_g 5y agoOne thing unique to N++ IMO is how well it works with lots of files open, and how easy and fast it is to do search'n'replace across lots of files. It has several modes (normal, regex, normal-with-multiline) so you can always choose easily the one that fits your scenario. The multiline one is IMO pretty useful - it allows multiline but allows to avoid clunkiness of regexes and escapings.
- coolso 5y agoFor just text I find Notepad2 far superior. The shame of it is (or not, because it’s excellent as-is) it’s not been updated in years.