Re: Opening Large files was: Outline View Cannot Handle Large Source Member with CopyBooks

Vern Hamburg wrote on 24/10/2006 05:12:04 PM:

LOL Adam- $30! You must do editing of text files once in awhile. The
ability to do search/replaces with regular expressions, color syntax
stuff, clip libraries, all that.

Well, I've got Vim for that :)  I've also used Programmers Notepad 2, 
another freeware editor that is pretty great.

I'm not saying that $30 is too much - I might purchase something like that 
for my own use if I didn't already have lots of great open source software 
that more than fills my needs (I use Linux at home so there is open source 
stuff available to do just about everything.)  OTOH, at work - $30 * 10 
developers = $300, enough to send one of us to our LUG's tech conference 
(basically a mini-Common).  I'd much rather go to the tech conference than 
buy a text editor when there are so many great ones that don't cost 
anything!

I use it all the time along with 
WDSC cuz WDSC has not got the good search/replace stuff - I can 
format something so much more easily, even some RPG stuff, in 
TextPad, then paste it into WDSC.

Yeah - I'd love to see regular expression support for replace in WDSC. 
Find using regex is some much less useful when you can't use capturing 
groups.

Thanks everyone for the suggestions of editors for large files - I'm sure 
it will help others in the future!
Adam

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