Text Editor which can handle large files?
 

Hi guys, I have a 16MB SQL file that I need to fix in a text editor.
I've tried Notepad, Visual Studio and PHPEdit but all of these read in the entire file at once so get very slow.

I need something which reads it in line by line as you scroll down, not the whole lot in one go.

Any suggestions?

Re: Text Editor which can handle large files?
 

I don't know of any, but I wouldn't have thought it would be too hard to write something? or have you tried gVim?

Re: Text Editor which can handle large files?
 

Nevemind, I've managed to get around it by opening the file in Notepad on a quad CPU server. Still slow but much better than my workstation.

Re: Text Editor which can handle large files?
 

http://www.liquidninja.com/metapad/

I use metapad. It's a smaller exe and has a few more functions. I don't know how fast it would load a 16MB SQL file, but it certainly has opened a 2MB exe for me at times, taking usually about 20seconds...

Re: Text Editor which can handle large files?
 

Try EditPlus, use it here to open a 104MB file across the network with no problems at all, it doesn't seem to load the whole file in when you open.

http://www.editplus.com

Re: Text Editor which can handle large files?
 

Not sure about the size of file thing, the editplus 2 text editor is my fave text editor, for most things.

ik

Re: Text Editor which can handle large files?
 

Nice one, handles things nicely.

Re: Text Editor which can handle large files?
 

Edit plus is brilliant all round. I especially like the fact that if the built in syntax checking and highlighting system doesn't support your language, you can probably download a plug in syntax checking file that will enable it to support your language.

Re: Text Editor which can handle large files?
 

I've opened huge files in Textpad before... Textpad can even compile your Java apps for you too, as well as do loads of other things that you'd not normally expect of a text editor. :)