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Re:Xray – An experimental next-generation Electron-based tex... by tomc1985 on Monday March 05, 2018 @09:30PM (#16526433)
Agreed, if anything will slog a text editor it is usually the linter

Also, you can choke vim with large (>5gb) test files. Or is that fixed now?

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Re:Xray – An experimental next-generation Electron-based tex... by Prefinem on Monday March 05, 2018 @09:39PM (#16526467)
The irony is that sublime text doesn’t slog down
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Re:Xray – An experimental next-generation Electron-based tex... by Turing_Machine on Monday March 05, 2018 @11:19PM (#16526839)
Sublime Text and TextMate will both choke big time if you feed them a large enough file without any line breaks. I have some largish machine-generated (5-10 MB) JavaScript data files that will reliably bring either editor to its knees if I accidentally click on one of them. The XCode editor also chokes.

I seem to recall (though haven't tried it for a while) that the Visual Studio Code editor handles them okay.

It's not a big issue -- since these are machine-generated, it's not normally necessary to edit them by hand. Every once in a while, though, I'll accidentally click on one of them in the file tree. Then I'll curse and kill the editor process.

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