Freezing when pasting large amount of text between quotes or heredoc (language PHP)

Min Liu

Hi,
I’ve been using Notepad++ for several years however one of the later updates v8.7 and above (currently running 8.9 64bit) is causing the app to hang when pasting large amounts of text in.

This only occurs when:

language is set to PHP
text is pasted between quotes or a heredoc

Does not occur if language is switched to something else, data pasted, then changed back.

Does not occur if language is set to PHP and the entire file contents is pasted in.

Example:
Start with a blank file, set language to PHP.
Paste in:
<?php

$a =<<< AAA

AAA

then paste in 15000 lines of
AAAAAA 9999

Plugins installed:
Mime tools
Npp converter
NppExport

Alan Kilborn

@Min-Liu

You should post your Debug Info.

Does it hang forever or does it just take what seems like a really long time?