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If you don’t know vim, notepad++ is fast on big files and has syntax highlighting for many languages. But vim does both better. Notepad++ is more windows in st
by pletnes 2y ago
If you don’t know vim, notepad++ is fast on big files and has syntax highlighting for many languages. But vim does both better.
Notepad++ is more windows in style with clipboard etc than base vim is.
- mmooss 2y agoIt depends on how big 'big' is. Years ago I was working with large CSVs - several hundred MB - and Vim took forever. I found some other text editors that specialized in extra-large files (I wish I remembered the names now), and the one we tried worked like magic.
- sigzero 2y agoUltraEdit is really good with large files.
- pletnes 2y agoAt some point you’re in grep/sed/awk/duckdb/streaming data land.
- mmooss 2y ago> duckdb Not sqlite, out of curiosity? which do you use when? I'm going to need one of them soon, which is why I'm asking ... FWIW, the aformentioned text editor working with the 200+ MB file could edit the entire thing almost immediately (at the UI level; I don't know what happened in memory). Each record was less than a screen-length, so maybe 100 char/line conservatively, so maybe 2 million lines. iirc I could insert a character on every line without problematic latency - my memory says mabye 10 seconds, but unless it was a dirty operation, that can't be true?