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This issue was reported manually by javatlacati. It already has 3 duplicates Build: NetBeans IDE 8.1 (Build 201511021428) VM: Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM, 25.45-b02, Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment, 1.8.0_45-b15 OS: Windows 8 User Comments: yinzara: I have no idea javatlacati: I think the error showed on opening the IDE jiai: Starting Netbeans. Stacktrace: java.lang.StringIndexOutOfBoundsException: String index out of range: -2 at java.lang.String.substring(String.java:1955) at eu.hlavki.netbeans.editor.unicode.Native2AsciiHint.run(Native2AsciiHint.java:55) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:0) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:497)
Created attachment 160119 [details] stacktrace
NPE comes from Native2Ascii plugin; reassigning.
This bug already has 5 duplicates see http://statistics.netbeans.org/exceptions/detail.do?id=221613