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.

@Arthur-Davis said:

I find it completely asinine that a text editor costs nearly as much as the entire Microsoft Office suite

A comment such as this from someone that appears to develop software (perhaps to make a living) sort of blows me away. Microsoft has their own business model, that bears little resemblance to that of small software companies, which I presume (perhaps wrongly, perhaps not) that the makers of Sublime are. Thus, maybe they NEED $79 per copy to stay alive. Again, I don’t know… What I do know is that if I want to use a piece of software, I don’t balk at the price. I have routinely paid $80 for software I’m going to use, and have rarely, if ever, regretted doing so.

I look at Notepad++ as something an individual (Don Ho, in the beginning) created on his own time, and graciously allows me to use (i.e., benefit from). Have I seen bugs? Yep. Have they ever been too burdensome to work around? Nope. Do I get all bent out of shape if something doesn’t work right, and go on the forum and rant and demand fixes, or say I’m switching to something else? Nope (at least I don’t think I do…). Do I get my money’s worth? Yep. :-)