Re:Sublime Text 3.0
by roystonvassey on Wednesday September 13, 2017 @09:36AM
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As someone who greatly under-utilizes Sublime, I'm still amazed at the ease with which it handles crazy, large files. I never even notice it until someone remarks on how I'm able to open a ~20 Mb file without hassle.
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This might be more of a function of some of the more broken Electron editors. Any sane editor can open a 20 Mb file without hassle. Notepad and TextEdit can.
Re:Sublime Text 3.0
by shouldgowork on Wednesday September 13, 2017 @09:41AM
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But it's not that great at several GB :(
I'd guess most editors do. Have you found an editor that doesn't?
Re:Sublime Text 3.0
by dotancohen on Wednesday September 13, 2017 @10:12AM
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I open multi-GB files often enough in VIM. Just make sure that you've disabled any plugins, as _those_ will often crush under large files. The `-u NONE` option will disable `.vimrc` and thus all plugins as well.
See relevant discussion on Stack Exchange: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/139254/why-cant-vim...
Windows have EmEditor.. unfortunately Linux doesn't seem to have any. Hopefully someone can develop a great frontend for the xi editor (https://github.com/google/xi-editor).
Sublime Text is imo near perfect, only thing I miss is the ability to edit multi-GB files (on a reasonably priced laptop).. sadly I believe it will be near impossible for Sublime Text to ever support this.