Xref: utzoo comp.editors:2402 comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d:11950 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!hellgate.utah.edu!caen!sdd.hp.com!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!jarthur!uunet!mcsun!unido!ira.uka.de!fauern!tumuc!newsserv.informatik.tu-muenchen.de!marvin.e17.Physik.TU-Muenchen.DE!hf From: hf@marvin.e17.Physik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Hannes Faestermann) Newsgroups: comp.editors,comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Subject: Re: editors for huge files Message-ID: Date: 29 Jan 91 10:56:56 GMT References: <1991Jan28.201452.27323@athena.cs.uga.edu> <1991Jan28.205844.19802@ariel.unm.edu> Sender: news@newsserv.informatik.tu-muenchen.de Organization: Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany Lines: 22 kgowen@cie.uoregon.edu (Kevin Gowen) writes: >In article <1991Jan28.201452.27323@athena.cs.uga.edu> boone@athena.cs.uga.edu (Roggie Boone) writes: >>I am looking for an ASCII editor that will let me edit huge files. >>I have a program file (21000+ lines) that is over 1 megabyte in size and ...stuff deleted... Try EMACS from the FSF (Free Software Foundation): It's able to load files >1MB and there are lots of macro packages written in a sort of lisp. You can get the newest version by anonymous ftp from prep.ai.mit.edu in the directory pub/gnu The newest version is 18.57 and it's size is about 4MB as a tar'ed and compressed file Hannes Hannes Faestermann | Internet: Physik-Department E17 | H.Faestermann@marvin.e17.physik.tu-muenchen.de TU Muenchen, | or: hf@marvin[.e17.physik.tu-muenchen.de] 8046 Garching, West Germany | BitNET : HF@DGABLG5P