It’s your right to choose whatever text editor you want to. However, crashes cause data loss; it is always your responsibility to make sure that critical data is backed up.
More information about the issue can be found at (https://notepad-plus-plus.org/community/topic/15748/faq-desk-crash-caused-my-file-to-be-all-nulls).
If you wanted to be helpful, instead of just complaining, you could try to reproduce the problem: whoever can be the one to find a reliable, reproducible way to force a crash causing the data loss will provide a necessary tool in fixing the problem: so far, the author has not been able to reproduce the problem, and thus cannot debug it.
Hello @david-bailey and All,
I have never read, yet, a more intelligent text, about the general problem of backups :-)) I, personally, think that this article deserves to be located in the FAQ section !
Cheers,
guy038
@Fly-Wire
delete your characters
put the cursor into the next line, press and hold shift+alt
click with the mouse into the position of the last line holding the data to be move
ctrl+x
go up to the line with the initial delete chars
ctrl+v
Took longer this to write than to do.
Cheers
Claudia
@Alex-Parfenov
Agreed that NPP is not an IDE, but, once one adds the proper plug-ins to it, these are some of the things that can be done with it:
Compile and link programs and jump to errors in the source code (NPP Exec)
Tag and use tags on source files (TagsJump and TagsView)
Keep many sets of files (sessions) at hand for editing (Session Manager)
Easily compare editor files to files in source control and check in files (Tortoise SVN)
Open files by name/pattern that are part of a solution (Solution Hub)
I suspect that a fair portion of long-time NPP users are programmers of one sort or another, and for good reason: it has a lot of features we use (syntax highlighting and the like) and it supports plug-ins that allow it to function pretty much like an IDE.
Hi,
I also have the same issue, and I just updated to the newest version. The problem was “gone” right away, because the AutoSave plug-in https://sites.google.com/site/fstellari/nppplugins wasn’t compatible and thus disabled (I downloaded 32-bit NPP by mistake).
So, for me at least, it seems that plugin causes the jumps whenever the program loses focus.
@Anton-Shepelev said:
I find this limitation rather artificial and annoying
It is not artificial. This is how Windows’ native font API works,
and for a good reason - many fonts are manually hinted to
raster grid, so trying to show them up at arbitrary size (especially
by small sizes) - you’ll just get some blurry crappy
quality. Of course this depends on rasterizer, but it seems Scintilla
is dependent on Windows’ APIs. Manually hinted fonts
(e.g. Times New Roman, Verdana) give significantly better quality so this makes sense.
especially with raster- and raster-based fonts, which work only at certain sizes.
This is quite self-contradictive: raster fonts are by nature non-scalable and are created initially in specific fixed sizes - each size is a separate
image stack.
