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Nano reads large files in chunks. Other text editors do indeed pull in the entire file before doing anything useful.
by 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 agoNo, 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#....