Best Free Text Editor Supporting *More Than* 4GB Files?

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Taptronic picture Taptronic · Sep 19, 2008 · Viewed 256.2k times · Source

I am looking for a text editor that will be able to load a 4+ Gigabyte file into it. Textpad doesn't work. I own a copy of it and have been to its support site, it just doesn't do it. Maybe I need new hardware, but that's a different question. The editor needs to be free OR, if its going to cost me, then no more than $30. For Windows.

Answer

VonC picture VonC · Oct 2, 2008

glogg could also be considered, for a different usage:

glogg screenshot

Caveat (reported by Simon Tewsi in the comments, Feb. 2013)

One caveat - has two search functions, Main Search and Quick Find.
The lower one, which I assume is Quick Find, is at least an order of magnitude slower than the upper one, which is fast.

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