that comment was about irfanview, not npp.

as far as kate goes… i am making the conscious effort to use it over npp. i’ve been using linux since debian was in diapers, but my main ‘work’ pc has always been windows (that fact will be changing soon as i can decide on a desktop and what spin of what will deliver it) and npp has been on it since its inception. so what npp ‘has’ over kate, for me, is 22 years of history together.

• Compare plugin worked better on N++
• It worked a little better with enormous files with long lines
• Highlighting multiple search results in a selectable color