Text Editor which can handle large files?

[Richard M]

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?

[philip.j.fry]

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?

[Richard M]

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.

[LemonyBrainAid]

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...

[MikeyB]

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

[ikthius]

Originally Posted by MikeyB

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

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

ik

[Richard M]

Nice one, handles things nicely.

[Stuart]

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.

[Gareth]

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.