Notepad++ - where is my loyalty??
Summary: Whilst working away on a slew of CSS bug fixes at The Agency, Notepad++ wasn't. Or rather, didn't.
Whilst working away on a slew of CSS bug fixes at The Agency, Notepad++ wasn't. Or rather, didn't. Occasionally.
Two or three times a day, Notepad++ just froze, a blank white screen of nothingness. This highlighted the number 1 requirement of any tool, that it just works. Now I don't know why Notepad++ was freezing, and I don't have the time right at the moment to find out.
Instead, I downloaded Programmer's Notepad and tried that out instead. It's based on the same text editing engine (Scintilla) as Notepad++.
This ability to change software is one of the wonderful things about Free Open Source Software, you can do this so easily. No license numbers, time-limited demos, nag screens, nope, none of that. But I do feel bad, even though it's a matter of expediency, as I just need a text editor that works.
PS written on Notepad++!!
Kick off your day with ZDNet's daily email newsletter. It's the freshest tech news and opinion, served hot. Get it.
Talkback
Notepad++ - where is my loyalty??
Someone just sent me the link to your article. Indeed, in the latest version, Notepad++ suffers the crash/unstable issue.
It's totally understood to change the software, I'll do the same in your case. What I would like to do is to identify the crash. May I ask for your kind help to execute Notepad++, for the last time, by removing Change Mark plugin?
Change Mark plugin was just identified recently as the culprit one (to causes the crash). For the moment, we have only 2 cases to confirm its crash.
Please contact me (don_POINT_h_AT_free_POINT_fr) if you want to help us to improve Notepad++.
Thank you for taking time to read my message.
Regards,
Don
Notepad++ - where is my loyalty??
Thank you for creating a wonderfully useful piece of software :)