I haven't touched it in a few years, but back then, when Notepad++ was already getting a lot of praise, I found that it started to fail pretty badly for me as s

I haven't touched it in a few years, but back then, when Notepad++ was already getting a lot of praise, I found that it started to fail pretty badly for me as soon as I waded into its more "advanced" functionality. Regex pattern matching, I seem to recall for one, but also other behaviour I've since forgotten the details of. Indentation, even, I seem to recall, such as in more involved cases of combinations of indenting commands and outdenting commands. For a couple of years, I spent a fair amount of my time doing some fairly heavy text manipulation in TextPad. At this later time, Notepad++ had some other features I was interested in that the somewhat languishing TextPad was not adding, but its inconsistencies in the points I'm recalling were eventually a gamestopper for me. TextPad is paid, and they borked their initial version 5 releases in some significant fashions, but it was very good and consistent at swallowing and processing large swaths of text on moderate resources. Good for e.g. beating mammoth print-to-file-d TPS reports into something useable in downstream steps. P.S. TextPad also implemented "persist indent upon wordwrap" in an effective fashion I've not found elsewhere. I don't mean to sound particularly like I'm pushing TextPad. And I was particularly unhappy with some of what happened with their v 5 release. But the features/behaviour I've described I found very useful and somewhat unique to it. I haven't been an environment where I've need of heavy use of it in some time, so I can't really speak to its current state, anyway. But I wish that combination of features and performance was more prevalent in the marketplace (free or paid).