On: Build Your Own Text Editor

[mekanicalsyncop]

Are there any good ones that exist? I'm a security analyst and I frequently work with large text files, 200MB-1GB and the text editors I've tried are incredibly slow.

A lot of the time I can use grep and other command-line tools to find what I need, but given the nature of the job I don't always know what I'm looking for so having the raw file open in a text editor is sometimes the only way.

[cjohansson → mekanicalsyncop]

I’d recommend xi-editor, vi/vim/neovim or emacs for that

[jhallenworld → mekanicalsyncop]

Try JOE, it can handle files this large no problem.

[proverbialbunny → mekanicalsyncop]

The person from the talk may have a github repo with the text editor he wrote shown in the talk.

[diegoperini → mekanicalsyncop]

As an ultimate noob of this area of expertise, can I ask if Sublime Text works? If not, why?

[diegoperini → diegoperini]

I'm the noob, not the parent. No sarcasm intended.

[BubRoss → mekanicalsyncop]

Gvim can open files of 2GB or more and search through them without any problem.