Notepad++ Plugin for reading large files
Solution has been developed in Visual Studio 2019 with Windows XP compatibity x86 and x64
- Select in the main window top menu Plugins->PluginAdmin...
- Scroll to "BigFiles - Open Very Large Files"
- Select and Install
- Download the BigFiles.dll file for your specific platform and Notepad++ version
- Open Notepad++ as Administrator
- Select in the main window top menu Settings->Import->Import Plugin(s)
- Select the file BigFiles.dll At this point it should be installed in Notepad++ plugin subfolder.
- Open Notepad++
- Select in the main window top menu Plugins->BigFiles->Open BigFile or from the toolbar
- Select file you want to open. Make sure it is a text file
- Use ALT+LEFT_ARROW and ALT+RIGHT_ARROW to change page backward and forward respectively
- Use ALT+UP_ARROW and ALT+DOWN_ARROW to jump to start or end of the file
The plugin is developed based on the Plugin template from Don Ho at https://github.com/npp-plugins/plugintemplate Big files are read using a small customizable 100kB per page. No files are kept open. An internal structure keeps track of page number for every file opened by the plugin.
- Plugin must be able to preview very large files in Notepad++ independent of the language (Multi-Byte)
- Plugin must be able to move viewable page changing page backward or forward, and to jump to start or end
- Fixed Error on closing bug
- Fixed reloading of updated configuration without restarting Notepad++
- Add settings dialog and bigfiles.ini for changing page size
- Improve classification of file type [Text, Binary, ZIP, PDF, etc.] and activate Hex-Editor if it is installed
- Open sequence of files. Ex: data1.csv + data2.csv + etc.
- Search for regex in the file by auto forwarding to next page
- (Maybe) Change behaviour when moving from page to page in a text file to truncate at \n\r.
