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Re:Ask HN: Programmers who don't use autocomplete/LSP, how d... by emj on Tuesday December 24, 2024 @07:03AM (#42501380)
A 100G file was ok in those editors even with syntax highlighting. That is an extreme because saving did take some time but there are ways to optimize for that would it ever become popular. IMHO 640K per file is enough for everybody.

  dd if=/dev/urandom bs=1M count=100k| tr -dc 'A-Za-z0-9\n' | fold -w 130 > largefile.c
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Re:Ask HN: Programmers who don't use autocomplete/LSP, how d... by teddyh on Tuesday December 24, 2024 @07:09PM (#42505908)
For Emacs, there’s a package for editing very large files: <http://elpa.gnu.org/packages/vlf.html>
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