Decent Text Editor For Large Files?
I’ve been working with large text files above 100MB in size and they take an eternity to open in Notepad, while in Wordpad and Word they have to keep loading as I scroll through the file.
I’ve been using PrestoSoft ExamDiff to compare the files and that can open and compare two files in a fraction of the time it takes for Notepad to simply open one file. This made me realise there's probably much better text editors out there than notepad so I was wondering if anyone could recommend a simple text editor that can open large files quickly?
Thanks for any suggestions.
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MDPE] at [2007-11-20 6:59:11]
# 1 Re: Decent Text Editor For Large Files?
Take a look at SciTE. It's my personal favourite. Fast, simple with some pretty nice features for a developer (like syntax highlighting, code completion and integration with a lot of compilers and interpreters). And apart from being a great tool for writing small applications it's also a good notepad-like text editor. Only 100 times faster.
# 2 Re: Decent Text Editor For Large Files?
Try Emacs. It opens huge files in the same amount of time than an hex editor, and the search function is faster than hex workshope search function!
And, for small files (a few hundred kilobytes), Metapad is a very good alternative to notepad.
# 3 Re: Decent Text Editor For Large Files?
If you need this for Windows, try Notepad++ ( http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/uk/site.htm).
Zachm at 2007-11-9 12:21:05 >
# 4 Re: Decent Text Editor For Large Files?
Thanks a lot for the replies. I'll give those three a try now.
Edit:
Emacs and Notepad++ seemed to be a bit more sophisticated than I need so I've gone for SciTE which does everything I want. I can’t believe how fast it opens the files compared to Notepad – 3 seconds versus 74 for a 105MB file. It will save me a massive amount of time and has a lot of features that will be very useful. Wish I’d looked into this sooner.
Thanks again for the suggestions.
MDPE at 2007-11-9 12:22:04 >
