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From: pinard@IRO.UMontreal.CA (Francois Pinard)
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Subject: Re: brief summary of editors for huge files
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Date: 5 Feb 91 15:58:07 GMT
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In-Reply-To: boone@athena.cs.uga.edu's message of 4 Feb 91 13:31:46 GMT

In article <1991Feb4.133146.24072@athena.cs.uga.edu> boone@athena.cs.uga.edu (Roggie Boone) writes:

   Here is the list of editors for huge files (PC):

I would add Jove to this list.  Jove is the Jonathan Payne's Own
Version of Emacs.  Jove always handled the big files for me on MS-DOS.

If I remember correctly, its only constraint is that all the
*modified* lines should be kept in memory.  Saving the file to disk,
once in a while in a long session, is the reasonnable thing to do
anyway, and flush the memory.  Only in the rare instances I had to do
a systematic change on all the lines, I exited Jove, used sed, and
re-entered Jove.
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