What kind of systems are you working on that require 120MB config files? I'm genuinely curious, not asserting anything.
Pretty much what it says in my profile. Instrumentation systems. The system topology and configuration for each card, parameter, etc. are all defined in an XML document. With thousands of parameters these files become quite large.
Re:Sublime Text Build 3101
by rubberstamp on Friday February 05, 2016 @09:45AM
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openstreet map data file for places can exceed GB even for cities. Sometimes it needs to be looked into. I was able to do it only using sublime.
I use Sublime to look and search very big files as well, it seems like basic functionality. Examples would include experimental pressure / temperature measurements, numerical simulation results, large geoJSON datasets...
Atom is fine for many people's usage of it, and it does some interesting things. It is not without merit. But until issues like this go away, I can't consider it. I regularly need to work with text files several hundred megabytes large. Atom cannot handle this usage. And before you say "Well, you're deliberately being difficult"... I am either taking a quick look at big csv files or automatically generated XML files that store configuration information for some of the systems I work on. A 120 MB XML config file isn't unusual.