Re:NotepadNext: A cross-platform reimplementation of Notepad++
by andai on Saturday April 09, 2022 @10:40AM
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That sounds like a lot, but most (power user) machines have more RAM than that these days. Are there any editors that can deal with files larger than available memory?
Emacs handles it fine. Two years ago¹, I wrote this:
“Just last week I opened, edited, and saved, a 4 Gigabyte SQL dump file, in Emacs. It was a bit slower than usual, but still well usable, and certainly no crashes.”
1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22880333