Text files of that size are absurd [LWN.net]

Text files of that size are absurd

Posted Feb 25, 2008 9:27 UTC (Mon) by flewellyn (subscriber, #5047)
In reply to: Definition of software bloat - see "Emacs" (veering off-topic) by pr1268
Parent article: Emacs news: new maintainer, version 22 pretest

Good heavens, 750 megs for one text file?  That's simply ridiculous.  I'd have long since
split the file into multiple files.

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Posted Feb 25, 2008 12:46 UTC (Mon) by smitty_one_each (subscriber, #28989) [Link] (1 responses)

He said "(don't ask)"! ;)

Posted Feb 25, 2008 13:09 UTC (Mon) by flewellyn (subscriber, #5047) [Link]

Yes, I know, but...sheesh.  I wouldn't even try using an interactive editor on a file that
size.  That's what sed and awk are made for.