I occasionaly need to edit a type 1 file of around 30-50 megabytes. The problem is most editors want to load the file into memory before working on it. Does anyone know an editor that would handle big files like this
David Jordan -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ken Wallis Sent: Friday, 24 September 2004 9:52 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [U2] Editors (was: Comparison Unidata and Universe) Scott, vim is free software too. You can make a donation to charity, but you don't have to pay a license fee. As I understand it, vim originated as an improved version of vi on UNIX and has since been ported to Windows. Its a wonderful product, widely used, robust, fast. If you like vi, you'll like vim. vim has every feature that vi has, plus many others. As I said the two that spring to mind as immediately useful are that it has unlimited undo - every time you press 'u' or click the undo button it backs out a previous change, where in vi, the first 'u' undoes, and then the next 'u' undoes the undo...; and that it remembers your previous searches and ':' commands - you can scroll through them with the cursor. I understand that you may be 'free-time challenged', but I'd say that vim is seriously worth checking out. (www.vim.org) Cheers, Ken > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Scott > Richardson > Sent: Friday, 24 September 2004 8:20 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [U2] Editors (was: Comparison Unidata and Universe) > > > Hey Ken, > First I heard of "vim" right here and now. > (Who says these forums aren't useful?). > Learn something new everyday! > > Merely mentioned that winvi32 was available, and seems to work > wonderfully, bringing this Unix Editor into the Windows realm. And it > appears to be a freebie - shareware - whatever. > > Guess in my copious free time, I will check out www.vim.org, (but I > get the sense it may be kind of cult-ish ;^)> ------- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ ------- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
