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Not terribly impressed. I have been working on a 148MiB HTML file the last couple of days, and opening it with textadept was quick enough but it basically hangs
by sandos 9y ago
Not terribly impressed. I have been working on a 148MiB HTML file the last couple of days, and opening it with textadept was quick enough but it basically hangs when scrolling around.
Notepad++ handles it without any major problems. VS Code almost does, sometimes it has crashed on closing a tab with the file open. Emacs I should not even try... (Wow: spacemacs asked me to "open literally" and the performance is really good! Nice!)
- snaky 9y agoEmacs is a fast, minimalist, and extensible cross-platform text editor.
- yxhuvud 9y agoFast, unless you happen to have very very long lines and word wrap enabled.
- RBerenguel 9y agoSyntax highlighting in very large files is what kills it for me. I usually open very very large files in literal mode to avoid lag
- deleted 9y ago[deleted]
- sigzero 9y agoMinimalist? Really now.
- snaky 9y agoWell, it depends on what you compare it with. IDEA, Visual Studio, Eclipse, you know. Of course, comparing to nano and nvi, Emacs isn't so much minimalist - but hey, did you ever try to run Emacs with no elisp packages?
- msla 9y agoComparing Emacs with ed is a point in ed's favor, sure. Ditto Emacs and Notepad, or nano. Comparing Emacs with anything else is more likely to look favorable to Emacs.
- yellowapple 9y agoIt's basically a Lisp machine runtime that happens to include a built-in text editing window. Compared to the likes of Visual Studio, Eclipse, or Sublime, though, it's certainly minimalist. The typical "Eight Megabytes And Constantly Swapping" joke is a bit quaint nowadays.
- blauditore 9y agoOut of curiosity, how do you end up with a 148 MB HTML file?
- firewalkwithme 9y agoSeriously @sandos, what are you working on there ? I want in
- chrxn 9y agogoldenmean.info