Large File Text Editors
Users compare text editors like Vim, VSCode, UltraEdit, Sublime Text, and others on their performance when opening and editing multi-gigabyte files such as logs or SQL dumps.
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vscode can handle larger files than most text editors. case closed.
UltraEdit can open huge files (multiple tens of GB) in seconds.worth a look if you do this a lot.
Vim, neovim, and helix all handle multiple-GB files fine!
UltraEdit is really good with large files.
VScode improved support for handling large files. They don’t even load the whole file in buffer. Load and syntax highlight as you scroll. Pretty smart approach.
Sublime Text and VSCode work fine with 1GB files in my experience.
What ist with vim and Emacs? Did you try them? I loaded files bigger than 1 GB with them - but this was on Windows.
this editor is exceptional at loading files which are gigabytes in size. nothing else I've ever used comes close.
Call me old, but I cannot look beyond vi/vim for an editor. A few years ago I had to edit a text file that was 9GB in size. It took a while to open it in vim, but once it was open, it was no different than any 2kb file. No other editor was able to even open the 9GB text file.
My #1 go-to for dealing with large text files. The Electron based stuff like VSCode et. al. completely break down on anything greater than a few MB.