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Re:Atom now opens files larger than 2MB by dagw on Wednesday June 10, 2015 @06:17AM (#9690992)
very few human-created text documents get anywhere near 2MB.

True, but as a programmer i very often generate and need to view files greater than 2MB.

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Re:Atom now opens files larger than 2MB by errtnsd on Wednesday June 10, 2015 @06:30AM (#9691033)
This.

Not to mention log files which commonly consume megabytes.

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Re:Atom now opens files larger than 2MB by bradleyland on Wednesday June 10, 2015 @09:14AM (#9691863)
Nitpick inbound.

You shouldn't open log files with an editor unless your intent is to edit the file. There are a whole host of tools (grep, less, awk, sed, etc) useful for parsing and exploring log files.

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Re:Atom now opens files larger than 2MB by mseebach on Wednesday June 10, 2015 @09:18AM (#9691882)
You also very often do X, but that doesn't mean your programming text editor is the correct tool for doing X.

Insisting on all tools having an X because X is a useful thing is how you get the very bloat the GP is talking about.

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Re:Atom now opens files larger than 2MB by lolhackernews on Wednesday June 10, 2015 @03:11PM (#9694582)
On the other hand, virtually every other editor is the correct tool to do that task, yet this one is not. Are we supposed to accept that?
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