Re:The old guard of Mac indy apps has thrived for more than ...
by jmiserez on Tuesday January 01, 2019 @03:26PM
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For really big files, I like glogg (https://glogg.bonnefon.org). It's just a viewer not an editor but it handles files larger than the available RAM with ease (multi-GB log files).
Re:The old guard of Mac indy apps has thrived for more than ...
by cimmanom on Tuesday January 01, 2019 @08:09PM
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Older versions of BBEdit and TextWrangler used to be able to open enormous files (larger than entire system RAM) while remaining incredibly performant. I don't know how they did it, but it was magical and a killer feature.
Unfortunately, that stopped being the case since they refactored the text display UI somewhere around version 9.
Re:The old guard of Mac indy apps has thrived for more than ...
by enos on Tuesday January 01, 2019 @11:02PM
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Are you sure it was that good with large files? I used to be a TextWrangler evangelist until I noticed it was mangling large files. You'd change one character but the saved file differed by far more than one character. Medium-sized nowadays, hundreds of MB TSV files. About 10 years ago.
Re:The old guard of Mac indy apps has thrived for more than ...
by cimmanom on Wednesday January 02, 2019 @05:08AM
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Yup. About 15 years ago, doing search/replace on multi-hundred-MB log files and SQL database dumps.
About 3-4 years ago it stopped being nearly as performant with large files (even a couple MB).
I’ve never had a problem with either BBEdit or Textwrangler mangling files. I can believe there may have been such a bug at one point, but I must have sidestepped it - perhaps it was caught and fixed quickly.
This is BBEdit's (and TextWrangler's) biggest asset to me. When other text editors on any platform on any machine choke on large files, BBEdit just doesn't care.