Editing large files on Mac OS X

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John Topley picture John Topley · Jun 4, 2009 · Viewed 88.8k times · Source

Does anyone have any recommendations for a programmer's editor that can cope with large files on Mac OS X? By large I mean hundreds of megabytes. TextMate doesn't cut it.

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Topher Fangio picture Topher Fangio · Jun 4, 2009

Have you tried Vim? It's the only editor I use :-)

Edit: It seems to depend upon a couple of factors. I used Vim with large CSV (i.e. text-based) files and that worked great. YMMV :-)

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