We have tried opening a 200MB file with this editor and have no issues so far. This program can be run out of the box without installation, and does not touch your system's registry. Notepad2 is a fast and light-weight Notepad-like text editor with syntax highlighting. Amongst other features, this editor can open very large files and has Unicode support. JujuEdit is a file/text editor with syntax highlighting and advanced find/replace algorithms. Amongst other features, it has syntax highlighting, can open large files and has Unicode support. GNU Emacs is an extensible, customizable text editor-and more. Im looking for a text file viewer (ideally an editor too) that will do the following (ordered from most to least important): Load the file quickly (10 seconds for a 10 GB file off an SSD) Once the file is open, jump to specific line numbers fairly quickly (1 second per lookup) Have decent text search/replace mechanisms, ideally with regex. Platform Supported: Windows, GNU/Linux, and FreeBSD. Platform Supported: Windows, MAC OS X, Linux, BSD and Unix.Ĭream is a modern configuration of the powerful and famous Vim, You can check it’s lengthy feature list here Vim is an advanced text editor that seeks to provide the power of the de-facto Unix editor 'Vi', with a more complete feature set. Here are some Text Editors that are free with an impressive feature list:
We searched out a few Text Editors that can make our lives easier and open these large files without hanging the system. Every week in my company, we go through the process of opening large log files (over 200 MB) and search and edit text.