that’s awesome

The editor question in #general got me wondering here…

So, as time goes on I like VSCode less and less for various reasons. I’m curious if anyone is aware of a good code editor capable of loading very large files (20 GB+ in size). Ideally memory mapped, loads instantly, and not trying to load+highlight the whole thing. I haven’t found a good one.

I’m sceptical that any IDE/editor will handle a 20GB+ file well :astonished:

Yeah, unless your RAM can hold it even vim sans syntax highlighting might would suffer… but try with vim -Nu NONE and see. And/or ed, but that also loads the whole file into a memory buffer.

My suggestion would be notepad++

Maybe I’ll just make something myself. I’ve been basically wanting an editor I can use to open very large, block-gzipped text files.

Should be able to just load 256k blocks and scroll around just fine. Obviously things like find/search would still suck unless limited in range.

Yeah, that definitely sounds like a different use case to what most editors target :stuck_out_tongue:

Just curious: can less handle such big files? It has search/find features. Obviously it’s read only.