Nano is not a gui desktop editor. Besides that vim is superior to nano in my opinion. A viable alternative would be an open source editor like Atom, but it can be useful to have a lightweight simple editor that doesn't blow up with a big file and is installed by default.
On Wed, Jan 23, 2019, 21:45 madbiologist <156...@bugs.launchpad.net wrote: > This needs to be fixed. In the meantime, try using nano. Unfortunately > nano doesn't have syntax highlighting. > > -- > You received this bug notification because you are subscribed to the bug > report. > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/156201 > > Title: > gedit handles opening big files badly > > Status in gedit: > Confirmed > Status in gedit package in Ubuntu: > Triaged > > Bug description: > Binary package hint: gedit > > Opening big text files (400 MB, 750 MB) in gedit is bad > - from a usability standpoint > -> There's no progress bar or cancel button for the action, and the > load takes a long time. > - from a system standpoint: > -> In earlier versions, gedit would take so much memory until the > system swapped all other applications to disk, and the system became > unusable. > -> Since Ubuntu 9.04 Beta, gedit crashes without a GUI message, but > the message "failed to allocate <X> bytes" in the console. > > > > Original description: > I just opened a 400 MB text file (mbox mail file) in gedit, and it my > system has now been unresponsive for minutes. Other editors can open large > files without a problem. Also, there's no progress bar or cancel button > that would make it easy to see how long gedit is loading the file or to > cancel the load. > > To manage notifications about this bug go to: > https://bugs.launchpad.net/gedit/+bug/156201/+subscriptions > -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/156201 Title: gedit handles opening big files badly To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/gedit/+bug/156201/+subscriptions -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
