@Maison-da-Silva

understood, thx.

Windows 10 has changed something.

Most likely, haven’t much time to test win10 as I was already migrating to Linux.

Cheers
Claudia

Well, would you look at that - I had no idea that existed. Thanks! :D

you can run it on linux with wine : https://www.winehq.org/

BUT wine provide too lib to compile native on linux for win32 programs.

Hello, Антон Карманов,

Not totally sure that is the definitive solution, but try to uncheck the Autodetect character encoding option, in Preferences > MISC.

Best Regards,

guy038

I have discovered what I think is an answer to my own request.
View | Move/Clone Current Document | Move to Other View.
Sorry to bother you all. I am still on the front end of the learning curve.

@David-Rivera

what about npps 5 builtin styles?
Select text, right-click->StyleToken and choose one from it.

Cheers
Claudia

I fixed this problem by changing the following code in NppExport that I found here https://github.com/chcg/NPP_ExportPlugin.

TXTExporter::exportData()
Before:
int totalBytesNeeded = ed->csd->nrChars;
After:
int totalBytesNeeded = ed->csd->nrChars + 1;

RTFExporter::exportData()
Before:
int totalBytesNeeded = 1; //zero terminator
After:
int totalBytesNeeded = 2; //zero terminator

HTMLExporter exportData()
Before:
int totalBytesNeeded = 1; //zero terminator
After:
int totalBytesNeeded = 2; //zero terminator

I hope this helps someone.

Thanks,
Darren

Ignore, restarting the machine took care of it.

First thing Notepad++ (or any similar editor) is probably the wrong tool to glimpse at a huge file. Something like unix ‘less’ utility or an app that supports “view only” will be much better for that.

How long does it take it to open the file when it succeeds?
Do you need syntax highlighting?

A 32 bit app can use/map only 2GB of memory (where other 2GB space is reserved to kernel) even if your computer has 16GB of RAM or more.
Notepad++ loads all the file to memory. Then for every character allocates at least an additional byte for highlighting color and lots of other extra internal data. Can’t say why sometimes it works and sometimes it fails but the total allocation size is definitely close to the 2GB limit.

Try the 64 bit version. Maybe it will be better. But consider a different tool.