Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!asuvax!ncar!boulder!seri!wind55!marshall From: marshall@wind55.seri.gov (Marshall L. Buhl) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Editors and huge files Message-ID: <1990Feb28.181657.24762@seri.gov> Date: 28 Feb 90 18:16:57 GMT References: <3658@plains.UUCP> <4710@jarthur.Claremont.EDU> Sender: news@seri.gov (news [NO CHARGE]) Distribution: na Organization: Solar Energy Research Institute Lines: 38 In article <3658@plains.UUCP> cooper@plains.UUCP (Jeff Cooper) writes: >I'm looking for a editor that can work with HUGE (2 meg) files. >Does anyone know of any editors that can handle this? I thought >QEdit could, but it's limited to 640K and so cuts the file off >when it runs out of memory. I really don't care if the editor >loads the whole thing into RAM or reads it off the disk as it >is needed. (I'd prefer the latter, I have enough memory but >I'd like a "disk based" editor) Thanks for any help anyone can >offer me. I use the SEE editor from C Ware. You normally get it with their C compiler, but I get it separately for $10 per copy in units of 5 or more. It's very easy to learn and use. I can teach it to a new user in about 15 minutes. It does most everything you need. Search and replace, cut and paste. Copy to/from other files. Edit two files at a time. Paragraph wrapping. It finds matching parens and braces. Auto indent. Macro recording. Sets colors for foreground/background. You can insert non-printing characters by entering their ASCII decimal equivalents. It's designed as a C language editor and you can use their compiler from within it. It allows escape to DOS shells, so you can run other programs while in the editor - if you have enough available RAM. It uses about 110K itself. You can define up to 4 tags in the file and then jump to them with a simple command. They are useful as place markers. If you enter a pound sign while in command mode, it will give you the line and column you are on. You can jump to any line in the file by typing the line number followed by a #. You can put tabs every n places. All commands are intuitive. You don't even need a manual. I just tested it out with a 2.5 MB file. It worked fine. It takes 12 seconds to get to the bottom on a Dell 386/25. All-in-all it's about 100 times better than vi. MUCH easier to learn and use. It's so simple, that even occasional users have no problem. VERY highly recommended. -- Marshall L. Buhl, Jr. EMAIL: marshall@wind55.seri.gov Senior Computer Engineer VOICE: (303)231-1014 Wind Research Branch 1617 Cole Blvd., Golden, CO 80401-3393 Solar Energy Research Institute Solar - safe energy for a healthy future