On Sat, 31 Jul 2021 10:31:41 +0100, zir...@xendistar.co.uk said: > I have been trawling through an old MySQL database and as it archived > Archive Manager was using Xed to look at the file
What format is the file? (Hint: at command line, type 'file filename') > In the end I did a simple CTRL-A of the whole data base and then copied > and pasted it into Mousepad Presumably you selected the whole of the database dump file rather than the database? > Was it faster pasting it into Mousepad simply because I had copied the > text out and into Mouse pad and xed was dealing all the SQL stuff. I've never used (or even heard of) Xed before today, but it doesn't seem to deal with SQL. Do you mean syntax highlighting? If so, it's possible - syntax highlighting will have a processing overhead, although I don't know how efficient Xed is at doing that. Some editors (eg, vim) will only process syntax for what's displayed; others will parse the whole file. The latter approach will clearly be slower on initial load, but faster to scroll. How big is the dump file? -- Great music, chat and even some wit. Join me every Friday evening at 8pm for Keith's Music Box: Follow: https://www.facebook.com/KMBEngland On Friday go to: https://www.mixcloud.com/live/KeithsMusicBox/ -- Next meeting: Online, Jitsi, Tuesday, 2021-08-03 20:00 Check to whom you are replying Meetings, mailing list, IRC, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk New thread, don't hijack: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk
