On 25 Apr 2006, at 18:01 , Mike Schienle wrote:
On Apr 25, 2006, at 4:48 PM, Nigel Stanger wrote:
Wow! I'm impressed guys. Yesterday I accidentally pasted 32,000
lines of
text into the text field in the Sort Lines dialog box, and it
actually
worked! (after a bit of a wait) And here I was expecting it to
crash or
something :)
That's pretty much the kind of thing got me started with BBEdit
around 1995. I had to edit something like 46000 lines of output
from a program and do some kind of colon and/or comma swapping
along the way. I tried it in Word and a couple hours later it
finished. I asked for ideas since this was an ongoing issue and
someone suggested BBEdit. I owned BBEdit as part of a MachTen
bundle, but wasn't using it very often. That was the turning point
for me and I've used it regularly since then.
Yeah, I suspect we all have similar stories. For me it was very
large text files that I needed to manipulate. I think it was a
gargantuan 4MB<1> text file that was a list of all the movies at The
Video Station that I was able to work with, pretty up, and not have
Word explode on me.
<1> probably around 1994
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