On Mar 27, 2008, at 4:27 AM, Clytie Siddall wrote:
I don't know if I've hit a memory ceiling with BBEdit, or whether it
should be able to handle very large text files.
From the BBEdit FAQ:
BBEdit and TextWrangler represent open documents as Unicode, which
uses two bytes for each character. Combined with an internal Mac OS X
limitation, this means that you can open files up to 384 megabytes in
size (402,653,184 characters).
I was editing my gettext Compendium today. A Compendium is a list of
all the unique strings you have translated. This file is over 30 MB
in size.
Although I was only selecting, deleting and adding small amounts of
text in this file, I experienced increasingly long save times, and
some of my simple operations also had a spinning beachball.
I've been doing some work today on a 352 MB file (over 5.6 million
lines and 369 million characters) and haven't seen any problems. The
file is slower to open and save, and some operations take a bit
longer, but for the most part BBEdit has been very responsive. In
fact, for most operations I've been using (column selections, Prefix/
Suffix Lines, Sort Lines, Quick Search, Copy/Paste, and lots of
scrolling) I can't even tell I'm working on an exceptionally large
file. Kudos to Bare Bones for creating such a reliable text editing
tool.
So I don't know what might be the cause of the problems you're seeing,
but I don't think it's a BBEdit file size limit. Does the problem
persist through a reboot of your machine?
-Dennis
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