[clug] *nix editor for Gigabyte files?

Daniel Pittman daniel at rimspace.net
Mon Aug 9 20:04:03 MDT 2010


Andrew Janke <a.janke at gmail.com> writes:
> On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 11:37, Michael James <clug3 at james.st> wrote:
>
>> What editor can quickly open multi gigabyte files on Linux?

Emacs, provided y'all are on a 64-bit platform.  ~ 17 seconds for 600MB,
although it doesn't page through it cleverly or anything.

Most editors should be pretty much solid, though.  It isn't like this is that
huge a challenge and all.

        Daniel
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