On Thu, Jan 24, 2008 at 10:38:05AM +0200, Oded Arbel wrote: > 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.
For starters, if you just need to view and search for text, use less. There's a nice little emacs clone called qemacs. As the 'q' suggests, it was written by Fabrice Bellard (of Qemu). It has not been developed since 2003, but is still available as a Debian package. I've just tried it, and it has opened a large test file quite fast. Just as well as less. I seem to have hit a bug when trying to search backwards (ctrl-R). forward-search is ctrl-S and thus seems to hang the terminal until ctrl-Q is pressed. -- Tzafrir Cohen | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il | | a Mutt's [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | best ICQ# 16849754 | | friend ================================================================= 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]
