RE: gedit slow with a 1.5Mb text file

["Wayne Hartell" <w.hartell@ozemail.com.au>]

Linux-Fan wrote:
> In my experience, VIM is slow with long lines (which are automatically wrapped and often look strange if the result is too large to fit on a single page) and 
> syntax highlighting. Using many short lines, VIM has always been good enough for me (even with several MiB file size).

I think that's what's happening for me. The line length runs well off the screen. I just didn't expect it.

>  Whenever I need to edit large text files, I chose JEdit (Package
> `jedit`) which has never been slow even with files above 50 MiB for me.

Thanks, I'll take a look at it.

Wayne.