On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 10:47:40AM +0000, Jasen Betts wrote:
> I find that jed is powerful, fast, and reasonably easy to use. and had
> no problem with 2.3MB lines.
>
> gnome-text-editor ("gedit") handles lines of tens of thousands of
> characters OK but seems to have problems displaying million character
> lines,
>
> I expect ther big guns "vim" and "emacs" also have no problems with
> long lines.
GNU Emacs is fine; just tried with a line consisting of a million copies
of "helloworld " and it was a bit slow with some operations but wasn't
as bad as I was expecting.
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