MultiReplace 6.2 is out and will land in Plugin Admin with the next Notepad++ release.
This is a big review and performance release: Find/Replace in Files is considerably faster and more robust, and the existing features were gone through once more, which led to a long list of fixes.
Download: Latest build
Key Features & Improvements
Faster Find/Replace in Files: Files are now read on worker threads while the current one is searched. In a test with 48,500 files, a search dropped from 8.7 s to 6.0 s. The thread count follows the drive type and can be set with LoadThreads in the INI file.
Faster scan and results: Files that cannot contain a hit are ruled out right after reading, the folder scan was reworked, and large result sets appear much faster in the Search Results Window.
Robust runs: Unreadable folders no longer end a scan; they are skipped and reported, for example 3 folder(s) unreadable. The panel is locked during a run (Cancel stays available), and a file that changed on disk after it was read ahead is read again, so nothing gets overwritten.
Safer Replace in Files: Files it cannot process safely are left unchanged and reported with the reason, for example 2 file(s) skipped: 1 too large, 1 not writable. “Not writable” is new, for example a file held open by another program.
Fixes from the review: Closing Notepad++ during a run no longer crashes. Find/Replace in Open Documents returns to the tab you started from and keeps its Flow Tabs alignment. With the CSV scope, each document uses its own columns. A hit in an unsaved tab (“new 1”) now jumps to that tab.
Translations: Japanese and Traditional Chinese show hit and file counts in the right order, Chinese (Simplified) can copy and open paths from the Search Results Window again, and the progress text is translated.
All changes are in the release notes.
Issues or suggestions: GitHub
Happy replacing!
