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Re:Textadept – A fast, minimalist, and extensible cross-plat... by sandos on Friday September 29, 2017 @07:05AM (#15364258)
Not terribly impressed. I have been working on a 148MiB HTML file the last couple of days, and opening it with textadept was quick enough but it basically hangs when scrolling around.

Notepad++ handles it without any major problems. VS Code almost does, sometimes it has crashed on closing a tab with the file open. Emacs I should not even try... (Wow: spacemacs asked me to "open literally" and the performance is really good! Nice!)

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Re:Textadept – A fast, minimalist, and extensible cross-plat... by blauditore on Friday September 29, 2017 @11:46AM (#15366290)
Out of curiosity, how do you end up with a 148 MB HTML file?
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Re:Textadept – A fast, minimalist, and extensible cross-plat... by firewalkwithme on Friday September 29, 2017 @02:04PM (#15367577)
Seriously @sandos, what are you working on there ? I want in
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Re:Textadept – A fast, minimalist, and extensible cross-plat... by chrxn on Friday September 29, 2017 @03:47PM (#15368528)
goldenmean.info
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Re:Textadept – A fast, minimalist, and extensible cross-plat... by snaky on Friday September 29, 2017 @07:13AM (#15364300)
Emacs is a fast, minimalist, and extensible cross-platform text editor.
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Re:Textadept – A fast, minimalist, and extensible cross-plat... by yxhuvud on Friday September 29, 2017 @10:28AM (#15365554)
Fast, unless you happen to have very very long lines and word wrap enabled.
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Re:Textadept – A fast, minimalist, and extensible cross-plat... by RBerenguel on Friday September 29, 2017 @11:35AM (#15366188)
Syntax highlighting in very large files is what kills it for me. I usually open very very large files in literal mode to avoid lag
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Re:Textadept – A fast, minimalist, and extensible cross-plat... by sigzero on Friday September 29, 2017 @11:26AM (#15366097)
Minimalist? Really now.
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Re:Textadept – A fast, minimalist, and extensible cross-plat... by yellowapple on Friday September 29, 2017 @08:34PM (#15370421)
It's basically a Lisp machine runtime that happens to include a built-in text editing window.

Compared to the likes of Visual Studio, Eclipse, or Sublime, though, it's certainly minimalist. The typical "Eight Megabytes And Constantly Swapping" joke is a bit quaint nowadays.

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Re:Textadept – A fast, minimalist, and extensible cross-plat... by snaky on Friday September 29, 2017 @01:27PM (#15367232)
Well, it depends on what you compare it with. IDEA, Visual Studio, Eclipse, you know. Of course, comparing to nano and nvi, Emacs isn't so much minimalist - but hey, did you ever try to run Emacs with no elisp packages?
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Re:Textadept – A fast, minimalist, and extensible cross-plat... by msla on Friday September 29, 2017 @01:38PM (#15367368)
Comparing Emacs with ed is a point in ed's favor, sure.

Ditto Emacs and Notepad, or nano.

Comparing Emacs with anything else is more likely to look favorable to Emacs.

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