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List:       debian-user
Subject:    RE: gedit slow with a 1.5Mb text file
From:       "Wayne Hartell" <w.hartell () ozemail ! com ! au>
Date:       2015-02-01 16:37:43
Message-ID: 017901d03e3b$ba13d980$2e3b8c80$ () ozemail ! com ! au
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Linux-Fan wrote:
> In my experience, VIM is slow with long lines (which are automatically wrapped and \
> often look strange if the result is too large to fit on a single page) and  syntax \
> highlighting. Using many short lines, VIM has always been good enough for me (even \
> with several MiB file size).

I think that's what's happening for me. The line length runs well off the screen. I \
just didn't expect it.

> Whenever I need to edit large text files, I chose JEdit (Package
> `jedit`) which has never been slow even with files above 50 MiB for me.

Thanks, I'll take a look at it.

Wayne.


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