yardie said text file, not binary files. Not sure what text editor doesn't bark at a 10GB binary file. Probably Sublime would be alone in handling it, but don't have it in front of me right now to test.

How do you distinguish a text file from a binary file? It's just bytes. But for the sake of it, I created a 10 GB .txt file containing the same ASCII-only line repeated 100 million times. Unsurprisingly, notepad.exe still says the file is too large. And it also hangs with a 1 GB version.

>text file, not binary files

there is a difference?

Some editors choke on long lines. A binary file can have long stretches without newline.

A text file only contains data that represents characters on the screen, while “binary file” is used to refer to any other file that isn’t meant to be viewed or edited as text.

If you open a (small) image file with notepad you will see a lot of gibberish. This is what happens when you try to view a binary (in other words, non-text) file as text.

For most intents and purposes, yes.