Vim 8.0 released [LWN.net]

Vim 8.0 released

Posted Sep 13, 2016 21:08 UTC (Tue) by ssmith32 (subscriber, #72404)
Parent article: Vim 8.0 released

Anybody try this on muti-gigabyte files yet? Large file support (as in, quickly loading and navigating them, not just loading them) has been the one feature I've found in proprietary editors that I haven't found an open source match for...

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Vim 8.0 released

Posted Sep 14, 2016 21:07 UTC (Wed) by mrjk (subscriber, #48482) [Link] (5 responses)

I agree!
We have all sorts of logs and journal files and no Open Source editor works as well as proprietory stuff.

I never thought I would be looking at Gig size files but I seem to be doing it on a weekly basis at this point.

Vim 8.0 released

Posted Sep 15, 2016 11:03 UTC (Thu) by ribalda (subscriber, #58945) [Link] (1 responses)

May I ask what proprietary editor do you use for that?

Vim 8.0 released

Posted Sep 28, 2016 6:19 UTC (Wed) by ssmith32 (subscriber, #72404) [Link]

The only one I've used that seems to work well on large (100GB pr more) is EmEditor. Haven't had to touch it for a couple years - it was windows only, and I haven't had to deal with a windows server in a while.

Vim 8.0 released

Posted Sep 15, 2016 11:12 UTC (Thu) by tzafrir (subscriber, #11501) [Link] (1 responses)

Not an editor, but have you tried less?

Vim 8.0 released

Posted Sep 16, 2016 21:27 UTC (Fri) by foom (subscriber, #14868) [Link]

I've always found emacs to work well on relatively large files -- even large files that are partially binary. I use it on 1GB files fairly routinely. Even if do an operation which you realize is going to take too long, it allows you to abort operations with control-g.

"less", on the other hand, I would not really recommend. It likes to do things like synchronously hang to count the number of lines, which is annoying -- although you can control-c to stop it. Emacs does a pretty good job of avoiding hanging to compute a line number in the first place, while still giving line numbers when it can do so without undue slowdown.

less also doesn't work so hot on partially binary files: its wrapping/repainting algorithm gets reaaaaaaaly slow if there aren't linebreaks often enough in the file. And its search function also doesn't always seem to always find things it ought to in binary files. Emacs has neither of these issues.

Vim 8.0 released

Posted Sep 15, 2016 20:03 UTC (Thu) by donio (guest, #94) [Link]

Emacs has vlf mode for this: https://github.com/m00natic/vlfi

It's available in melpa.