Text editor to open big (giant, huge, large) text files

Free read-only viewers: Large Text File Viewer (Windows) – Fully customizable theming (colors, fonts, word wrap, tab size). Supports horizontal and vertical split view. Also support file following and regex search. Very fast, simple, and has small executable size. klogg (Windows, macOS, Linux) – A maintained fork of glogg. Its main feature is regular expression search. It supports … Read more

How to make vim paste from (and copy to) system’s clipboard?

The “* and “+ registers are for the system’s clipboard (:help registers). Depending on your system, they may do different things. For instance, on systems that don’t use X11 like OSX or Windows, the “* register is used to read and write to the system clipboard. On X11 systems both registers can be used. See :help x11-selection for more details, but basically the “* is … Read more

How to view Plugin Manager in Notepad++

As of Notepad++ version 7.5, plugin manager is no longer shipped with Notepad++ From the Notepad++ release notes: You may notice that Plugin Manager plugin has been removed from the official distribution. The reason is Plugin Manager contains the advertising in its dialog. I hate Ads in applications, and I ensure you that there was no, … Read more