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Dealing with large files or huge number of open files is something where Notepad++ really shines, it's basically the reason you would use it for text files inst
by crispyambulance 5y ago
Dealing with large files or huge number of open files is something where Notepad++ really shines, it's basically the reason you would use it for text files instead of VS Code, IMHO. I've had Notepad++ open many hundreds of files in single sittings to do file exploration, data-cleaning and really aggressive regex search/replace. It's obviously smart about how to deal with this without locking up the application.
Definitely my goto editor for non-code files. I've wondered if emacs can do the same, but when I've asked an emacs user responded with "Why would you want to open 800 files?" I take that as a "no"?
- arbitrage 5y agoThey may just be trying really hard to avoid saying "I don't know", or perhaps "It never occurred to me to try". Emacs users aren't accustomed to getting questions they don't know the answer to, IMHO.
- teddyh 5y ago> I've wondered if emacs can [deal with large files or huge number of open files] […] I take that as a "no"? Emacs handles it fine. Two years ago¹, I wrote this: “Just last week I opened, edited, and saved, a 4 Gigabyte SQL dump file, in Emacs. It was a bit slower than usual, but still well usable, and certainly no crashes.” 1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22880333 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22880333
- andai 5y agoThat sounds like a lot, but most (power user) machines have more RAM than that these days. Are there any editors that can deal with files larger than available memory?
- teddyh 5y ago> Are there any editors that can deal with files larger than available memory? Emacs: https://elpa.gnu.org/packages/vlf.html https://elpa.gnu.org/packages/vlf.html