All text editors should be able to open any text file, especially if there isn't any special formatting being used. For example, TXT files can be opened with the built-in Notepad program in Windows by right-clicking the file and choosing Edit. Similar for TextEdit on a Mac.
Hell, with that size, you might just need to use a full word processor and save in.txt mode. Not sure if OpenOffice and do a text file that size or not. Wow, that's big stuff. Textpad states it can use all of memory, including virtual memory limits to open a file. Might try that one. Notepad++ is supposed to have a 2GB file size limit.
Have you ever felt frustrated when you just want to look at the content of a large text file but it takes forever for Notepad or Word to open it? This program was designed for viewing large (>1GB.
The GVim editor is very useful for editing programs and other plain text files. All commands are given with normal keyboard characters, so those who can type with ten fingers can work very fast.
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Navigate to your Applications folder and double-click TextEdit.
Your TextEdit window opens.
Press cmd+O.
The Open dialog appears.
Navigate to the desired text file and double-click the filename to load it.
You can also open an existing text file by dragging its icon from the Finder window to the TextEdit icon.
Click the insertion cursor anywhere in the file and begin typing.
To edit existing text, drag the insertion cursor across the characters to highlight them and type the replacement text. TextEdit automatically replaces the existing characters with those that you type. To simply delete text, highlight the characters and press Delete.
Press Command+S.
This saves your changes. Alternatively, you can save a new version by choosing File→Save As and typing a new, unique filename.
Have you ever tried to edit a big file? I mean, a really big file, like 2GB or more. It should be easy, I mean, after all you just got that fancy new 64-bit Windows box with an 4- or 8-GB of memory. 2GB should be cake, right?
Wrong.
Try opening it with any run of the mill editor like Notepad or Wordpad, or even the normally great TextPad editor and it will take forever. And you can forget about using an IDE like Eclipse for big files unless you like to watch your tools run out of memory and die a painful but lingering death.
EmEditor to the rescue!
Better text editor for mac reddit. EmEditor is a smart editor from Emurasoft that can handle pretty much any sized file. 2GB? 20? 200? No problem. A billion lines? Sure. What about really long lines? Is 10 million columns enough, because EmEditor can handle that with ease. It's not just for programmers, but programmers can certainly appreciate and use many of its features.
The neat thing is that it can handle enormous files without using all that much of your memory. Here's a screenshot from the Windows Task manager showing the editor using less than 50MB of memory when editing a 7.18GB file on Windows 7.
When files get over a certain size (user configurable), EmEditor will start seamlessly spilling them out to disk. You can also edit sections of massive files if you like, for example the first or last 3GB. Most editors try to keep the whole file in memory, and they use algorithms that only work well when you have less than a few thousand lines. Even if you do manage to open a big file, typing or deleting characters can slow to a crawl. By contrast, EmEditor is tuned for speed even with ridiculously large text and binary documents.
EmEditor is one of the few editors I know that has been built for both 32- and 64-bit modes. If you have a 64-bit operating system, why shouldn't you be using a 64-bit editor? You can edit files larger than 4GB even on 32-bit Windows, but 64-bits makes the editor run even faster and keep more in memory before using temporary space.
Excel import text wizard. EmEditor Professional Version 10 has a slew of new features including new compare modes, synchronized scrolling, smarter spell checking, vertical selection editing, and more. See the new features page for a full list. But the feature that makes EmEditor one of my favorites is its astonishing speed with large files. You have to see it to believe it.