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nano ftw. Modern web email clients have this since a long time and Gmail never crashed internally for me ;)

• annoyingnoob 6y ago
  Something tells me that if you are bent on using FOSS and/or care about privacy then Gmail isn't going work. Can't argue that there must be easier ways to handle email.
• lucb1e 6y ago
  > Gmail never crashed internally for me Some google services seem to be crashing the tab in my Firefox (but me only, since this bug has been there for many months now and I reported the crash with URL a bunch of times), I remember street view for sure but recently there was another, don't remember the name. (I don't use google services that frequently aside from pulling youtube content.) Anyway, point is, browsers aren't infallible either and google is known to make their software work only in google-branded browsers. I'm not sure that a really stupid bug in $someSoftware is a good argument for why we should move everything into the browser, or a Google product in particular (why not bring up roundcube or runbox or something?).
• saagarjha 6y ago
  I use nano, but I have to say I am very surprised that they mentioned it as a viewer for large binary files. It reads the entire file off of disk into memory and then tries to split it into lines! It can't even do well on files with large enough lines :(
  • d2wa 6y ago
    Nano reads large files in chunks. Other text editors do indeed pull in the entire file before doing anything useful.
    • saagarjha 6y ago
      No, it reads the whole file at once: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/nano.git/tree/src/files.c#n671 https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/nano.git/tree/src/files.c#....