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I see this limitation mentioned often when Atom is discussed. On the constructive side of things, anybody have recommendations for editors that do handle large
by JohnBooty 12y ago
I see this limitation mentioned often when Atom is discussed.
On the constructive side of things, anybody have recommendations for editors that do handle large text files well?
Obviously vi and emacs do. (Correct?)
OSX - TextWrangler and its big brother BBEdit are the best I've found - but this is not something I've extensively researched.
Windows - UltraEdit boasts that it can edit files of arbitrarily large sizes and in my experience this is true. UltraEdit costs money but I have an old version I keep around for when I need to work with bigger files.
- JamesMcMinn 12y agoSublime Text. I've used it for files > 2GB and it seems to handle them fine.
- osw 12y agovi, nano, micro emacs, vim, emacs, gedit, geany, Kwrite, Kate, notepad++, sam, acme
- aragot 12y agoI haven't looked at it for long, but as I remember it could help if there was a visualized for those files. Often it's a png, a jar, it would be less frustrating if it could open anyway, just in the right editor?
- jussij 12y agoWhat do you define as a large file? For example Atom seems to think a 2 MByte file is large. I personally think 100 MBytes files are quite large. But some users with massive log files consider Giga Byte files as being large.
- JohnBooty 12y agoYour definition sounds fine to me!
- bengotow 12y agoOn the mac BBEdit is incredible. A several hundred MB log file will bring Sublime Text to it's knees, and BBEdit has no problems at all. +1