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Re:Zed: The Next Phase by coolsunglasses on Wednesday April 02, 2014 @02:59PM (#7518082)
>didn't try to cram the whole thing in memory, just the parts it needed. I'm guessing vim and Emacs work in a similar manner.

Yes, but with the caveat that it's line based (1 dimensional) not 2 dimensional so a VERY long line can still choke vim and Emacs.

--- long time primary Emacs, secondary vim user

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Re:Zed: The Next Phase by mikestew on Wednesday April 02, 2014 @03:38PM (#7518353)
> it's line based (1 dimensional) not 2 dimensional so a VERY long line can still choke vim and Emacs.

Have an upvote because (to quote Johnny Carson) I did not know that.

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