On 02/01/2015 01:42 PM, Wayne Hartell wrote: > I grabbed a 1.5MB text file from Windows (converted using dos2unix, not that > it appears to make a difference) and tried to open this in gedit and it > takes about 45 seconds to open the file. That is a whole lot slower than I > was expecting. To make things worse the performance within gedit is very > sluggish and searching the text file is not possible; it simply locks up the > gedit process (maxes out the CPU).
[...] > One thing I have noticed under vim is that if I turn on line numbers the > document is showing as several large chunks of text on a handful of lines, > as opposed to a large number of short lines. Would this be tripping up > gedit performance wise perhaps? (And vi/gvim, presentation wise?) > Any advice or tips on this, especially from Windows to Linux converts, would > be gratefully received. > > Right now it looks like I have to use two text editors to get what I want > (gedit, as painfully slow as it is, to read through the file) and vi/gvim to > search it. > > Cheers. In my experience, VIM is slow with long lines (which are automatically wrapped and often look strange if the result is too large to fit on a single page) and syntax highlighting. Using many short lines, VIM has always been good enough for me (even with several MiB file size). Whenever I need to edit large text files, I chose JEdit (Package `jedit`) which has never been slow even with files above 50 MiB for me. HTH Linux-Fan -- http://masysma.lima-city.de/
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