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Re:A lightweight, simple, fast, feature-filled, text editor ... by kenferry on Tuesday December 27, 2022 @05:00PM (#34154445)
You want BBEdit
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Re:A lightweight, simple, fast, feature-filled, text editor ... by KerrAvon on Tuesday December 27, 2022 @07:24PM (#34155857)
Ken is correct. IIRC, the very first version of BBEdit back in 1991(?) could handle files significantly larger than memory (on a system without memory mapping, no less).
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Re:A lightweight, simple, fast, feature-filled, text editor ... by vbezhenar on Tuesday December 27, 2022 @08:15PM (#34156294)
I just opened 1.5GB binary file and it ate 2.5GB RAM according to Activity Monitor.

I tried to open 20GB single line text file and it started to eat RAM. I killed it at 60GB as I only have 64GB RAM.

So at least modern version does not seem to work well with big files.

vim does not seem to work either.

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