Is there a line length limit in Notepad++?
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I am using Notepad++ to save my Node-Red flows, and one of them is a bit over 63kb. It looks complete on the screen, but I am wondering if I’ve exceeded the spec for the length of a single line?
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There’s an over-a-decade-old post here concerning this, where a poster hinted that the limit for a single line might be 64KB. So at 63KB, you might be OK.
I think this is going to be more of a Scintilla limit rather than a Notepad++ limit. Some quick searching did not prove helpful in this direction…
It certainly would have been nice to find some info about this here, but sadly that is not the case.
I’m sure @PeterJones is right now creating test files with various line lengths and will report back findings soon. Thanks Peter. :)
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welcome to the notepad++ community, @Stephen-Mann
i did not experience any issues with long lines of multiple mb length on recent versions of notepad++, like 7.6.6.
so far it appears, that the document handling does not differentiate, whether a line break is present or not, except a slowdown if such lines are wrapped.
a good test file is https://code.jquery.com/jquery-3.4.0.min.js which is 87kb in one line plus header line and one trailing empty line.
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as @Meta-Chuh already said, it shouldn’t be a problem.
I too did once a test with 10 000 000 chars within a line and it worked but the performance is noticeable decreasing.
Up to ~1 000 000 chars it was ok, more or less. -
Thanks for the replies. I switched from Textpad about a year ago precisely because my text was limited to 64k. But I miss the block copy functions.
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@Stephen-Mann said:
I miss the block copy functions.
Do elaborate on what you mean. Perhaps Notepad++ does have the functionality you want.
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if you mean select a block and copy/paste it somewhere, like seen at the screencast below:
hold thealtkey while selecting a text with your mouse, then copy it withctrl+cand paste it where you need it.
best regards.
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@Alan-Kilborn said:
I’m sure @PeterJones is right now creating test files with various line lengths and will report back findings soon. Thanks Peter. :)
Sorry. Earning my paycheck got in the way. Meta and Eko appear to have handled the long-line-okay confirmation without me. :-)
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@Meta-Chuh that is cool. I could not find that in the online instructions.
It’s not quite the same as the Textpad Block Mode, but I can get used to it.One benefit of notepad++ that I didn’t anticipate is the formatting for my C programs complete with block collapse/expand. It there a way to auto-indent?
@Alan-Kilborn said:
@Stephen-Mann said:
I miss the block copy functions.
Do elaborate on what you mean. Perhaps Notepad++ does have the functionality you want.
The more I experiment the alt-drag block select that Meta Chu pointed me to, the more I like it.
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