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A comment on Epsilon Programmer's Editor.

Re:Epsilon Programmer's Editor by tonyle on Friday August 26, 2016 @07:26PM (#12370030)
Sometimes programmers need to look at unusual files: binary files, very big files, odd data files. Epsilon was designed without the limits of other editors, so it can handle these kinds of jobs, as well as ordinary files. For example, with Epsilon, lines can be as long as you like.

This text editor gets it. Such a contrast to some of the editors we have today where anything over a few megabytes is an edge case not worth fixing.

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Re:Epsilon Programmer's Editor by PeCaN on Saturday August 27, 2016 @12:47AM (#12371048)
Really? I loaded a 1.2GB ISO in the demo and it used… 1.2GB of RAM. (At least it worked though, coughAtomcough.) And more importantly it has no unicode support whatsoever as far as I can tell (any non-ASCII characters I typed showed up as ?).
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Re:Epsilon Programmer's Editor by ComodoHacker on Saturday August 27, 2016 @03:06AM (#12371366)
> I loaded a 1.2GB ISO in the demo and it used… 1.2GB of RAM.

And what you expect here? Other editors usually take 2x to 3x of file size.

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Re:Epsilon Programmer's Editor by NuSkooler on Saturday August 27, 2016 @03:17AM (#12371382)
For massive text files, this is your friend: http://jujusoft.com/jujuedit/
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Re:Epsilon Programmer's Editor by nightcracker on Saturday August 27, 2016 @06:37AM (#12371809)
mmap'd files.
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Re:Epsilon Programmer's Editor by ComodoHacker on Saturday August 27, 2016 @09:57AM (#12372349)
mmap doesn't help much if you do syntax highlighting or other formatting.
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Re:Epsilon Programmer's Editor by actuallyalys on Saturday August 27, 2016 @02:32AM (#12371285)
Wouldn't a hex editor be a better choice for binary files and odd data files? Are there benefits besides the ability to handle large files and long lines?
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