On Sun, 24 Jul 2016 14:01:08 -0600
Chris Murphy <lists(a)colorremedies.com> wrote:
On Sat, Jul 23, 2016 at 10:15 PM, stan
<stanl-fedorauser(a)vfemail.net>
wrote:
> So, yes, it appears that if I was using gedit I would have the
> problem also.
Thanks for that. What do you use?
I use vim. I know, a modal editor? Yeah, it has a learning curve, but
once I got used to it, it is just so efficient. And even though I know
I only use part of its capability, I don't regret biting the bullet.
Most people hate the ESC thing to switch modes, but I mapped unlikely
two character sequences to do the same thing, so I rarely need to hit
escape. Some people go so far as to buy a foot switch to switch modes,
so they become extremely efficient on the keyboard.
Usually, when I'm looking at such large text files they are output, and
so I just use a pager like less to look at them since I'm reading
them, not changing them
As further information, when I used gedit on a 77 MB file, it was
ready with minimal delay (10 seconds?). I wonder if someone made an
assumption about file size when allocating buffers, and used a less
efficient method (temp file) when above a certain size. That
would really slow things down. Haven't checked though.