[Glitch]

GerbilSoft, on 28 January 2012 - 04:17 PM, said:

The EDIT control is mostly intended for textboxes, not displaying huge amounts of text. Hence, it's not optimized for displaying large files.

^^ This. Notepad++ (and my editor of choice, Programmer's Notepad) are built around the scintilla component which is specifically designed for this use case.

[Destructiox]

My editing tool of choice is UltraEdit, I had some of the same lag problems you are experiencing with Notepad, Markey (with saving/loading the file also taking up a ridiculous amount of time.)

This post has been edited by Destructiox: 01 February 2012 - 07:06 AM

[Meat Miracle]

Notepad actually had a limit of 32k or 64k files back before Windows 2k or XP removed it, it just threw an error dialog if you tried opening bigger things. If memory recalls right, you could still open a file that was smaller, edit it long enough so it grows past the border, and save. You just couldn't reopen it again.

Thirding Notepad++.

[Sik]

The limit was 65535 characters, pretty much - which is curious because edit.com could actually open larger files (65280 lines of up to 1021 characters each, if I recall correctly, making up for a maximum of around 63.5 MB, although of course the real limit depended on how many characters did you have per line =P).

[TmEE]

Win9x notepad kindly asks if you want to use Wordpad instead for opening files larger than 64KB