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How large are you talking? I had similar issues early on with Atom, but I don't have them anymore (same project). Also, it would only hang for about a second wh

by spoiler 10y ago

How large are you talking? I had similar issues early on with Atom, but I don't have them anymore (same project). Also, it would only hang for about a second when initially opening the file, later on it would work smoothly.

tomsmeding 10y ago
Many-megabyte, probably; think an assembly dump of your browser, for instance.
- imron 10y ago
  Not sure why you're being downvoted. Sure, maybe you're not going to have a need to open an assembly dump of your browser very often, but plenty of projects have multi-megabyte text/data files that need to be opened now and then. One of programs I develop uses a dictionary that when unzipped is ~8Mb. Sometimes I need to open that up in an editor and it's nice not to have to fire up a different editor to do that. In fact this is one of the first things I do when trying out a new editor - see how well it can handle files > 1Mb in size. Maybe if you're only working on small projects with small files this isn't such a concern, but there are plenty of people who have legitimate concerns if an editor can't open large files (and 1Mb isn't even large).
gedy 10y ago
Big JSON files for one, with tens of thousands of rows. ST3 can load and regex replace nicely. Atom just was unresponsive.
- spoiler 10y ago
  To be fair, I forgot I got a new PC between the first time I used Atom and when I switched over to it. However, I did try opening an 11 MB (JSON) file and it did indeed feel sluggish.
PeterisP 10y ago
I'm using ST because I want to use the same editor for my code and data, and I rather frequently get 100mb-1gb textual data files, logs, tabular data in plaintext or json, etc - not big enough to require special tools to process (I mean, they're a small fraction of my RAM), so a text editor should allow to eyeball them and do some basic processing - edit a particular line, do interactive global regexp replacements to e.g. adjust the columns in a million-line file, etc. I haven't tried Atom, but the Hydrogen plugin looks very interesting. How does it react to, say, being asked to do syntax highlight on a 100mb json?

by spoiler 10y ago

tomsmeding 10y ago

Many-megabyte, probably; think an assembly dump of your browser, for instance.

imron 10y ago
Not sure why you're being downvoted. Sure, maybe you're not going to have a need to open an assembly dump of your browser very often, but plenty of projects have multi-megabyte text/data files that need to be opened now and then. One of programs I develop uses a dictionary that when unzipped is ~8Mb. Sometimes I need to open that up in an editor and it's nice not to have to fire up a different editor to do that. In fact this is one of the first things I do when trying out a new editor - see how well it can handle files > 1Mb in size. Maybe if you're only working on small projects with small files this isn't such a concern, but there are plenty of people who have legitimate concerns if an editor can't open large files (and 1Mb isn't even large).

gedy 10y ago

Big JSON files for one, with tens of thousands of rows. ST3 can load and regex replace nicely. Atom just was unresponsive.

spoiler 10y ago
To be fair, I forgot I got a new PC between the first time I used Atom and when I switched over to it. However, I did try opening an 11 MB (JSON) file and it did indeed feel sluggish.

PeterisP 10y ago

I'm using ST because I want to use the same editor for my code and data, and I rather frequently get 100mb-1gb textual data files, logs, tabular data in plaintext or json, etc - not big enough to require special tools to process (I mean, they're a small fraction of my RAM), so a text editor should allow to eyeball them and do some basic processing - edit a particular line, do interactive global regexp replacements to e.g. adjust the columns in a million-line file, etc. I haven't tried Atom, but the Hydrogen plugin looks very interesting. How does it react to, say, being asked to do syntax highlight on a 100mb json?