I have the exact same problem. From a usability point of view, this editor is practically useless for big files and I wonder why it is the default editor? The bug should either be fixed or another editor should be set as default in my opinion. Vim opens the same file in not even a second and LibreOffice includes weird encoding and still is many times faster.
the file I use is 20 Mb, my system has 16 gb of memory and gedit really chokes in it. Takes MINUTES to open it. Sublime text takes about a second. too. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gedit in Ubuntu. 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 -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
