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Geany can open large files (GB in size) that bring other editors to a grinding halt. It's my go-to editor for all files on Linux.

freedomben 3y ago
This might be the best selling point I've seen yet! Really neat and will come in super handy for a few SQL dump files I have to occassionally open...
crabbone 3y ago
Vi(m) and Emacs can be used as pagers, so they can open files of any size (infinite, circular, you name it). I mean, there's nothing bad about this particular feature of Geany... but, let's be honest, nothing special either.
- betaby 3y ago
  In a world of IDEs/editors/apps built on Electron it's a big deal nowadays!
- junon 3y ago
  Idk, vim has a hard time with large files for me, too. Especially files with long line lengths.
  - crabbone 3y ago
    I'm not very knowledgeable about Vi, I had someone else configure it for me as a pager a while ago. I used to use it (as a pager) to work with database dumps which were typically multiple Gigabytes big. It's obviously slow to do certain things, compared to smaller files, but that's to be expected as simply seeking through these files would take time. As for Emacs, I either use Hexl mode or I used to use a modified version of this: https://github.com/mbriggs/emacs-pager https://github.com/mbriggs/emacs-pager but cannot find a source at the moment. But, even if not used as a pager, Gigabyte file will work. That's still far from the breaking point. Not as snappy, and if you have a Python source file that's Gigabyte big you will have to disable Python mode, for example. But with logs / database dumps that's usually not a problem.
  - himo3 3y ago
    vim might be able to work with large files, but not if they contain long lines
- kzrdude 3y ago
  As an example. Neovim is great, but treesitter is struggling with big files. That means that commonly used neovim configurations don't work well with big files at all (and I need to run in clean/no config mode to open huge logfiles.)
nsteel 3y ago
True and this is a feature I love. Except if you go too big, it seems to crash. I'm yet to work out what the limit is but when I'm unsure I reach for glogg.

freedomben 3y ago

This might be the best selling point I've seen yet! Really neat and will come in super handy for a few SQL dump files I have to occassionally open...

crabbone 3y ago

Vi(m) and Emacs can be used as pagers, so they can open files of any size (infinite, circular, you name it). I mean, there's nothing bad about this particular feature of Geany... but, let's be honest, nothing special either.

betaby 3y ago
In a world of IDEs/editors/apps built on Electron it's a big deal nowadays!
junon 3y ago
Idk, vim has a hard time with large files for me, too. Especially files with long line lengths.
- crabbone 3y ago
  I'm not very knowledgeable about Vi, I had someone else configure it for me as a pager a while ago. I used to use it (as a pager) to work with database dumps which were typically multiple Gigabytes big. It's obviously slow to do certain things, compared to smaller files, but that's to be expected as simply seeking through these files would take time. As for Emacs, I either use Hexl mode or I used to use a modified version of this: https://github.com/mbriggs/emacs-pager https://github.com/mbriggs/emacs-pager but cannot find a source at the moment. But, even if not used as a pager, Gigabyte file will work. That's still far from the breaking point. Not as snappy, and if you have a Python source file that's Gigabyte big you will have to disable Python mode, for example. But with logs / database dumps that's usually not a problem.
- himo3 3y ago
  vim might be able to work with large files, but not if they contain long lines
kzrdude 3y ago
As an example. Neovim is great, but treesitter is struggling with big files. That means that commonly used neovim configurations don't work well with big files at all (and I need to run in clean/no config mode to open huge logfiles.)

nsteel 3y ago

True and this is a feature I love. Except if you go too big, it seems to crash. I'm yet to work out what the limit is but when I'm unsure I reach for glogg.