What I guess I found out so far is the following

First npp tries to detect if the file is a BOM file, if it is,
it gets rid of the BOM signature and continues reading the file in converted utf-8.

If it isn’t a BOM file it’s calling chardet library to see what codepage to use.
If chardet returns, it is checked if it is reported to be utf-8 -> go on reading the file …
if not, convert it to utf-8.

But this, of course, happens only “virtual” for scintilla control.

Cheers
Claudia

Hello @cmeriaux,

Thank you for this useful addition.

Best regards.

thank you Claudia.

Based on the path I assume it is some kind of network share.
Most likely there is some hang due to the network that both editors experience. Perhaps waiting on some locked file.
If the share is SAMBA from linux by any chance I guess that soft links may lead to infinite circles within the directory tree.

Find in files loads each file into notepad++. It is always rather slow and over network it can be really slow.
How many php files are under this folder?
How long did you wait for the hang to finish?

@Robin-Muliawan

You are absolutely correct. This is a BUG.

In theory, due to another BUG, you could press Alt+D (for down direction) or Alt+U (for up direction) while you are still on the Mark tab of the Find dialog, and it will change the (currently invisible) Direction box setting on a Find dialog tab that has this box (“Find” or “Repace”). However, due to yet another BUG (or maybe same BUG, when the bugs pile up it is easy to lose count), sometimes the Up and Down radio buttons BOTH get “checked” when doing this – and when they are both checked Notepad++ gets confused. :-)

So…there are bugs…which you already knew about, one at least…

So what to do? Well, typically I find that when I am wanting to Mark something, I do it and then end up finding text that should have been marked isn’t marked. Why? Because I didn’t tell it to “Wrap around”. As I typically want “wrap around” 99% of the time I am marking something (unlike when I am using find or replace), maybe you do, too? Maybe not, but as a workaround to the bug, I would suggest it. Or, obviously, you could remember to switch to the “Find” tab and check the setting there before executing the mark (burdensome)…

It looks like Notepad++ does not really emulates “tail -f” but instead checks for updates only when the app comes back to focus.
There is a plugin “Document Monitor” that refreshes all the open files every 3 seconds

@Rick-Duley

via Settings->Preferences->Backup
untick Remember current session for next launch

Cheers
Claudia

@Scott-Sumner

Is there a way to clarify what is meant by this?

to avoid misunderstanding because of my version of english ;-)
let me try to explain by example, even so I know you already know this.

Cursor is at position 0 (first line - first column)
by pressing tab (and assuming tab width is set to 4) cursor moves to position 4 (column 4)
now pressing enter, cursor is at position 10 (second line column 4).
Every new line will also start at column 4 as long as you reset it by e.g. pressing backtab.

Cheers
Claudia