

One of the standout features of Notepad++ is its syntax highlighting, which supports different programming languages. With such a broad range of features, it is no wonder why Notepad++ has become popular among users looking for a more fully-featured text editor. In addition to working with plain text, it can also serve as a source code editor for programmers and supports more than 50 languages. (BTW: v8.4.7 was from last November, and there have been 7 versions released since then v8.5.4 just triggered “auto update”, so ?-menu > Update Notepad will want to install v8.5.4 for you I’m not sure why you thought that v8.4.7 was the latest version.Notepad++ for PC is an excellent plain text editor that comes loaded with all of the features you've missed from traditional Notepad. If you find that you have a with thousands or millions of matches and it crashes Notepad++ when you try to delete it, even without a new search running yet, then you may have found a bug with the way that Notepad++ deletes large, and you should probably put in an official bug report. (This will clear out all old results as I said, if you want to manually clear out just specific results, then you’ll not want that option checkmarked, and you’ll need to manually clear the old results you don’t want before starting the next search). … that will mean that every time you start a new search, it will automatically clear out the old results first.

If you really only ever want one set of results in the window (and if you’re doing huge searches, that might be my recommendation), you can right click in and tell it to Purge for Every Search If you want to clear out a specific set of results, I suggest doing it before you start a new search. When Notepad++ is in the middle of a huge search action (like your find-in-files with thousands of documents), it’s devoting all its attention to fulfilling that request when you also then try to do anything else inside Notepad++, I am guessing you are confusing it. If so, my recommendation is, “don’t do that”. However, if I understand your screenshot correctly, it appears that you were trying to delete old results while the new results are actively being searched. I have never used the window when there are that many matches (my use cases just don’t have thousands of files with hundreds of thousands or millions of matches), so I don’t know how it will behave with such large sets.
