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Re: [tlug] Text Editor Recommendations?



Any recommendations for text editors?  I mainly just need it for text dumps

How big will they get?

I tend to use vscode for just about everything now, and like how it can handle very large files and still allow scrolling and jumping around them without slowing down. However, it has crashed with a 150MB xml file before, so there is still a limit.

Re "just about", I often use xed when in a bash shell, to edit configuration files, things like that.

The built-in (to Ubuntu 24.04.1 LTS) "Text Editor" works fine, but it
doesn't seem to have a particularly useful feature I like in SciTE - the
cursor going to the end of the line (the point before a hard return, not
the displayed part of a wrapped line) when pressing [End].

Just tested and the first End takes you to the end of the visible line, the wrap point, the second takes you to the proper end of the line. A quick search didn't find a way to customize that, but that is ideal for me.

(I see xed just sticks there at the end of the wrapped line, which would be annoying, wouldn't it.)

Darren



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