Goodbye to Notepad++ I never want to touch it again.īy the way, Notepad++ Portable has the the same major bug. Well, it's too much user effort for me to tolerate this horribly defective program. And what reason does he give for not fixing it? He says it's too much "coding effort". Scroll to the "Followups" section at the bottom of that formal bug-report page, and you will witness Don Ho blatantly refusing to fix this major bug. Here is a link to a bug report about it (on an official Notepad++ web site): There is a work-around for this bug, but the work-around is a time-consuming hassle that you must remember to do (and probably won't remember to do) every time you save a new document. So, for example, if you create a new plain-text document, it is saved without the ".txt" extension, and therefore it is saved by Windows as an unknown file type, which Windows will not know how to handle when you try to open it. The bug causes the following problem: when saving a new document, your new document is saved without any extension. All in all, HEX-Editor comes in handy to all advanced Notepad++ users.I absolutely vote thumbs-down on Notepad++ because it has a major bug that the program's author, Don Ho, refuses to fix. We have not come across any issues throughout out evaluation, since the plugin did not hang or crash. It has a good response time and performs well. The lightweight application does not burden Notepad++'s overall performance.
regular text, selection, compare, bookmark) and alter fonts (e.g.
Other options of HEX-Editor let you specify file types to automatically open in hex view mode when loaded into the word processor, modify colors (e.g. It is possible to compare hex codes and clear comparison results, as well as to insert columns and replace patterns.Īs far as options go, you can customize the start layout between 8-bit, 16-bit, 23-bit and 64-bit, hexadecimal and binary, Big and Little Endian mode, as well as to establish the column count and address width. From this point on, you can access the tool from the "Plugins" menu via the word processor's main application window.Ī shortcut is provided for quickly switching to hex mode, in case you don't want to access the "Plugins" menu every time. In order to install this plugin, all you have to do is move the DLL file to Notepad++'s installed files, namely to the "Plugins" directory. It comes packed with a handy configuration set for all user levels. HEX-Editor is a Notepad++ plugin that enables users to view text in hexadecimal mode, as the name suggests.
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