Text editor to open big (giant, huge, large) text files

less is perfect for browsing (not editing) files, because it is very fast and easy to handle. My favorite for large files. · nano is a little ...

What is the best text editor for opening large files? · Atom · BBEdit · Sublime Text · Nova · MacVim · Xcode · TextEdit. Built in to macOS this ...

What is the best text editor for opening large files? · Atom · BBEdit · Sublime Text · Nova · MacVim · Xcode. We all know Xcode. I'm not even ...

Free editors: Your regular editor or IDE. Modern editors can handle surprisingly large files. In particular, Vim (Windows, macOS, Linux), Emacs ...

I would recommend VEDIT. It is about the only editor that is fast enough to realistically edit huge files. Its engine has been written in highly ...

EmEditor is capable of opening very large files — up to 16 TB or 1,099 billion lines — with only a little memory, leaving you free to work as large or small as ...

I personally use Notepad++. Notepad++ (Windows) and Sublime Text (Windows, macOS, Linux) support files up to 2 GB.

Textpad is a simple windows editor that handles large files well. I've never tried a 2GB file, but I've opened 500MB+ files pretty easily.

The two common choices being sed and perl both have the same downfall of creating a temp file before actually writing.

It is one of the editors with virtually no limit on file size – easily open, view, edit, and save large text files in excess of 4GB!