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Notepad++ has the best feature ever: Autosave without a filename. Just close and open and everything is the way you've left it.

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VSCode and Sublime Text do that too. And recently Microsoft even added it to Notepad.

Ah didn't know!

And it has caused me so much pain. Open a file big enough to crash np++? Good luck getting out of it.

Eventually I figured out it only reloaded the file if you can few enough tabs open so I could just open a bunch of other files, let it crash, open some more and then eventually it wouldn't load the huge file, so I could close the tab. But still, such a pain.

It was many years ago and I was young and stupid, so there's probably a much better way. But I've moved on to Linux and to Emacs now

I always use vim for big files. Have edited giga-byte SQL dumps with vim with no problems.

Now, years laterand knowing much more than I did then I suspect the file might have been in the gigabytes and was causing overflow issues. Because it was crashing, not slowing down

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