That's quite a claim. I'd put it up against EmEditor (https://www.emeditor.com/). Not only does EmEditor have amazing support for large files, it has Excel-esque GUI support for delimited files.
Re:Sublime Text 4
by quickthrower2 on Friday May 21, 2021 @08:45AM
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That’s pretty cool. I use vim for this particular need and it’s quick to search through big files too
Really? I've found Vim slows to a crawl on multi-GB files. Maybe that's changed recently or it was down to the plug-ins I was using?
It's probably from creating a backup copy. Compare performance when invoking 'view' instead of 'vim'.
It could be from your plugins if they're doing something goofy.
Re:Sublime Text 4
by quickthrower2 on Friday May 21, 2021 @06:45PM
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I use vim out of the box with no plugins and on windows. Not sure if that makes a difference. I’m also typically not editing the file but searching logs.
You need to turn off syntax highlighting before opening a really large file in vim. Otherwise the syntax parsing takes an age.
:syntax off
Another underappreciated editor is visual slickedit[1]
It will happily allow you to edit TB large files
I've used slickedit for at least 20 years on windows. It's definitely a good editor as well
It's the only editor I'm aware of that can do do disk-based editing, that is you can open a file of multiple gigabytes quickly and edit it because it doesn't load the whole file into RAM.