On 02/09/2009 12:28 AM, Martin Langhoff wrote:
On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 2:19 PM, Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> wrote:If jed can deal with files that large, sure. But if it expects to be able to load the entire file into memory - as most text editors do - stat() will be only the first of its problems.Old vi was able to work with files larger than available RAM. I wonder if any modern text editor today can still handle that.
I've got a 23GB text file that vim 7.2.079-1 just won't "see".more(1) processes it, file(1) processes it, but vim displays an empty screen with "[New File]" at the bottom.
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