Large Text File editor

[henryzz]

does anyone know of a large text file editor that doesnt use twice as much memory as the size of the file
i have found a program called edexor but that uses a lot of memory

[rogue]

Originally Posted by henryzz

does anyone know of a large text file editor that doesnt use twice as much memory as the size of the file
i have found a program called edexor but that uses a lot of memory

I use TextPad.

[victor]

I use vim.

[xilman]

I use emacs.


Paul

[robo_mojo]

vim

[mdettweiler]

I generally use gedit (the default GNOME text editor) on my Ubuntu system; it seems to handle large files nicely (and I sure have been handling a lot of large files lately, with all the LLRnet results files and sieve files I handle for NPLB and CRUS!). As for memory usage, I hadn't noticed it using an outrageous amount of memory, but then, I didn't really pay much attention to that, as I have 2 GB of RAM (so plenty of headroom). Next time I need to open a big file, though, I'll be sure to check the RAM usage.

[Mini-Geek]

I use Metapad (http://www.liquidninja.com/metapad/) or Wordpad (bundled with Windows). I haven't really checked the memory usage on big files, but they both work fine for the largest files I've worked with.

[mdettweiler]

Originally Posted by Mini-Geek

I use Metapad (http://www.liquidninja.com/metapad/) or Wordpad (bundled with Windows). I haven't really checked the memory usage on big files, but they both work fine for the largest files I've worked with.

Ah yes, I'm a big fan of Metapad too--I use it on all the computers I have to deal with that run Windows. I sometimes even use it inside Wine on Linux, because it can both read and save files in both DOS and Unix formats--so it's handy for doing things like converting LLRnet results files to Unix format so that a Perl script can compare them with a NewPGen file that's in Unix format. I don't think it's too bad with memory usage, either.

[Mini-Geek]

Originally Posted by Anonymous

Ah yes, I'm a big fan of Metapad too--I use it on all the computers I have to deal with that run Windows. I sometimes even use it inside Wine on Linux, because it can both read and save files in both DOS and Unix formats--so it's handy for doing things like converting LLRnet results files to Unix format so that a Perl script can compare them with a NewPGen file that's in Unix format. I don't think it's too bad with memory usage, either.

Yeah, I think it was from a post of yours (I know it was on mersenneforum, and I think it was yours) that I heard about it.

[mdettweiler]

Originally Posted by Mini-Geek

Yeah, I think it was from a post of yours (I know it was on mersenneforum, and I think it was yours) that I heard about it.

Ah, I see. Well, glad to hear I've been of assistance!

Edit: After a quick search, I found which post it was in. Turns out it was in the LLRnet getting started guide I wrote for NPLB--I suggested Metapad for editing the llr-clientconfig.txt file, which, due to the fact that I put together the client archives posted at NPLB on a Linux machine, has Unix line endings.

[cheesehead]

I frequently use TextPad's sort function -- don't know how many other editors offer that.