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Re:Ox is a fast text editor, written in Rust, that runs in y... by rootlocus on Tuesday November 03, 2020 @03:38AM (#24977675)
I highly doubt you have to manually edit a GiB file by hand. For read-only, less opens it instantly.
Re:Ox is a fast text editor, written in Rust, that runs in y... by hu3 on Tuesday November 03, 2020 @04:47AM (#24978062)
I tweak 1.5GB files by hand on a weekly basis on servers across the globe. Fortunately vim works for my use case.
Re:Ox is a fast text editor, written in Rust, that runs in y... by rootlocus on Tuesday November 03, 2020 @01:27PM (#24982442)
In that case, you would be better served by some automation tools.
Re:Ox is a fast text editor, written in Rust, that runs in y... by hu3 on Tuesday November 03, 2020 @05:58PM (#24985018)
You'd have to know my specific use case to say that.

Unfortunately it's not automatable.

Re:Ox is a fast text editor, written in Rust, that runs in y... by kilroy123 on Tuesday November 03, 2020 @04:47AM (#24978059)
I have had to do this in the past. Admittedly, that was only a few times over the course of 15 years.