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Re: Can Jed open file larger than the memory?


Larger than virtual memory, no.

On the flip side, the per line overhead is actually pretty reasonable
compared to many editors, and as a result it can handle many files that
they won't and do so a very reasonable speed.  At my old job I would
regularly get asked for help by the DBAs when they'd get a data file which
had some type of simple problem and they couldn't edit it themselves,
either because their editors ran out of memory or slowed to a hopeless
crawl.  More than half the time jed would do the job in a few minutes
without any special efforts.

> On Tue, 10 Feb 2009 09:23:02 +0000 (UTC), Jörg Sommer <joerg@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>> if I have a file with say 2GB, but I've only 1GB RAM available. Is Jed
>> able to open the file and present it to me for editing?
>
> No.  jed is not a large file editor and was never intended to be one.
> Rather it was designed for routing tasks such as editing source code,
> email, etc.



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