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Notepad++ Hijacked by State-Sponsored Hackers
(notepad-plus-plus.org)
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this post was submitted on 02 Feb 2026
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And work bosses saw a news story on this and banned the app outright :( can anyone suggest a replacement that is not paid and has features useful for searching lots of large logs files quickly for keywords?
Kate
+1 for Kate. I think its ment to be an acronym for KDE Advanced text editor but its a linux program that feels very close to notepad++ and will handle large files with gusto
VSCodium.
Rename the shortcut to notepad++2?
Emacs
He’s asking for a text editor, not to join a cult. /s
I guess Geany could work?
I downloaded that one today. It will work for now but it's missing a couple of n++ features I use.
Which ones? I rarely explore all the tools and features that these text editors offer, so I'm really curious
Ive always had notepad++ crash on large files or xml's with no newlines. I use sublime in those cases :)
That said, as a developer, notepad++ is a very often used tool haha
I regularly open CSVs in the range of 500MB to 2GB in notepad++ without any problem.....
Emacs
Notepad++ installed from any package manager was perfectly fine and safe.
Well those would have included the update checker. So if you installed from a package manager, then let it update when prompted for the new version, you could still have been at risk.
I don't know how most package managers on windows work, but usually, auto updates are disabled by default for software that comes from one. For example, Firefox installed using APT on various linux distro will not auto-update out of it.
I vaguely remember chocolatey packages not really doing that, causing mismatch between installed versions and its internal database, though, so maybe it wasn't that good of a solution.
I know.
Zed! Fastest GUI editor out there other than Sublime Text.
Sublime 3
Awesome choice but one crucial detail is that commercial use requires a license.
I'm only using Sublime Text and the Notepad that is included with Windows. Not sure exactly what you're looking for.
NotepadQQ 😆