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Re:Lime Text – Open Source Sublime Text alternative (2014) by KZeillmann on Thursday October 13, 2016 @02:23AM (#12698906)
I just want to be able to look at the first 10 lines of a 15MB JSON I downloaded of the internet without having the entire application crash. It doesn't seem like too much to ask. There's a big difference between asking for a 15MB file and a 500MB file. 15MB is a pretty reasonable size for a text editor to be able to open without crashing, IMO. Unfortunately, I have to peek at those in Vim instead. Nothing wrong with Vim, but I hate having to switch editors to look at one file.
Re:Lime Text – Open Source Sublime Text alternative (2014) by aaron987 on Thursday October 13, 2016 @03:29AM (#12699103)
If it's just JSON, can't you do this:

head -10 myfile.json

Re:Lime Text – Open Source Sublime Text alternative (2014) by oblio on Thursday October 13, 2016 @03:58AM (#12699213)
Ideally you'd want to configure the browser to open JSON files & co with your default editor, since that makes for a very pleasant workflow.
Re:Lime Text – Open Source Sublime Text alternative (2014) by tehwebguy on Thursday October 13, 2016 @03:31AM (#12699111)
I don't know now what goes into these apps or why newer apps can't handle it but I still keep TextWrangler around for huge files. It's not really a "modern" editor I guess but it screams.
Re:Lime Text – Open Source Sublime Text alternative (2014) by di4na on Thursday October 13, 2016 @04:54AM (#12699371)
head ?
Re:Lime Text – Open Source Sublime Text alternative (2014) by elmigranto on Thursday October 13, 2016 @08:38AM (#12700296)
Re:Lime Text – Open Source Sublime Text alternative (2014) by kleptako on Thursday October 13, 2016 @08:35AM (#12700284)