[PLUG-Devel] Edit 2GB text file?

[Alan Dayley]

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Slide wrote:
> 
> I've edited a file that large in VIM although it took a little while
> to load and to scan through. There is a tool called strangley enough,
> split, which will split a file into pieces. I believe its part of
> core-utils. man split anyway.

Running split to cut it up right now.

I tried VIM and, well, with KDE up running Thunderbird and a few
instances of Konqueror too, the swap was going nuts as it tried to load
the file on my 512MB of RAM.  So I killed the VIM load, seeking a better
answer.

Of course, on that other well known OS, I would not have even dared to
try all that!  And here I am still running on a stable system.

Anyway, I was hoping for an editor that loads only parts of a file at a
time instead of trying to load the whole thing at once.

I'll see what I can do with split.

Thanks for the quick response.

Alan

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