From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 27 20:15:25 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8CB9737B405 for ; Mon, 27 Aug 2001 20:15:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.11.4/8.11.4) id f7S3FK924092; Mon, 27 Aug 2001 22:15:21 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2001 22:15:20 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: Jorge Biquez Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Simple Editor for a newbie? - inc color Message-ID: <20010827221520.A17383@dan.emsphone.com> References: <5.1.0.14.2.20010828104735.02ed1908@mail.ideal.net.au> <20010828021942.A50163@student.uu.se> <5.1.0.14.2.20010827183056.01ee8cb0@icsmx.com> <3B89D9CA.9F0ECF29@citystamp.com> <5.1.0.14.2.20010827183056.01ee8cb0@icsmx.com> <5.1.0.14.2.20010827201820.01ee5200@icsmx.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20010827201820.01ee5200@icsmx.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.21i X-OS: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In the last episode (Aug 27), Jorge Biquez said: > Samba sounds good.... but on our testing file we have tried already > with several editors (286 MB of simple text) and until now ALL > editors on windoze machines (even NT) had failed that test (the > machine frezzes). Maybe you don't really want an editor; if all you're doing is text replacement, you can use sed. It works on a single line at a time, so it doesn't matter what size file you have. Joe handles large files well; it creates an on-disk swapfile for input files over 5MB. Swapping degenerates when you edit every line in the file, so loading a large file and doing a search&replace that touches most of the lines will take a loong time. SCSI disks help a lot. I've edited multi-hundred-meg files with no problem. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@emsphone.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message