Hi List. My favorite console text editor is mcedit - I don't subscribe to the vi/emacs debate. But occasionally I need to edit rather large files, and mcedit borks at a few megabytes. When this happens I turn to vi (only because its always available while emacs is a non-default installation option - I really don't do the whole vi vs. emacs thing) and at several dozens of megabytes when vi becomes problematic I find that nano sometimes deliver.
But now I'm looking into text files several gigabytes in size, and every attempt to open such files in any of the aforementioned options always ends in me having to kill the process after it brings my (not state of the art but still rather capable) computer to its knees. Does such a beast indeed exists ? A text editor that can handle several gigabytes worth of text (hopefully by not trying to load everything into main memory) ? A console based editor would be preferable, but I don't mind X. it doesn't have to be pretty or support funky text handling commands - it just needs to work. Thanks. -- Oded ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
