[gedit-list] Re: gedit-list Digest, Vol 7, Issue 7

["Kenneth B. Hill" <ken scottshill com>]

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>    1. Re:  Can't open a 2.6MB file (Marc D. Murray)
>    2. Re:  Can't open a 2.6MB file (Paolo Borelli)
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> Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2005 11:21:04 -0500
> From: "Marc D. Murray" <marcdm phronein com>
> Subject: Re: [gedit-list] Can't open a 2.6MB file
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> I'm using the Gedit packaged with Ununtu 5.04 (gedit 2.10.2) and I've 
> managed to open text files as big as 138MB in gedit.
> 
> If line-wrapping is enabled it takes forever to open if there are long 
> lines. But, killall gedit, disable line-wrapping, re-open file and I'm 
> good to go.
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> HTH.
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> Marc DM
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> Paolo Borelli wrote:
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> >Il giorno mer, 24/08/2005 alle 17.39 -0700, Kenneth B. Hill ha scritto:
> >  
> >
> >>Is there a file size limit for a file that gedit can open? I'm trying to
> >>open a 2.6MB size file, and it just "hangs" and I have to force quit it.
> >>If there is a sixe limit for gedit, then can you recommend another gnome
> >>text editor that can handle larger files? Thank you.
> >>
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >There shouldn't be any size limit, though opening very big files may be
> >a little slow and hang the interface for a while in the current
> >version , since the loading is done synchronously. However 2.6 MB
> >doesn't seem that big... I just tried a 1.3MB (the biggest I could find
> >in my /var/log) and it opened pretty fast without any problems.
> >
> >
> >ciao
> >	Paolo
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> Message: 2
> Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2005 19:21:42 +0200
> From: Paolo Borelli <pborelli katamail com>
> Subject: Re: [gedit-list] Can't open a 2.6MB file
> To: "Kenneth B.Hill" <ken scottshill com>
> Cc: gedit-list gnome org
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> Il giorno gio, 25/08/2005 alle 10.18 -0700, Kenneth B.Hill ha scritto:
> > On Aug 25, 2005, at 2:54 AM, Paolo Borelli wrote:
> > 
> > > Il giorno mer, 24/08/2005 alle 17.39 -0700, Kenneth B. Hill ha scritto:
> > >> Is there a file size limit for a file that gedit can open? I'm trying 
> > >> to
> > >> open a 2.6MB size file, and it just "hangs" and I have to force quit 
> > >> it.
> > >> If there is a sixe limit for gedit, then can you recommend another 
> > >> gnome
> > >> text editor that can handle larger files? Thank you.
> > >>
> > >
> > > There shouldn't be any size limit, though opening very big files may be
> > > a little slow and hang the interface for a while in the current
> > > version , since the loading is done synchronously. However 2.6 MB
> > > doesn't seem that big... I just tried a 1.3MB (the biggest I could find
> > > in my /var/log) and it opened pretty fast without any problems.
> > >
> > >
> > > ciao
> > > 	Paolo
> > >
> > >
> > I just checked my PC; it has 233MB of RAM. I am able to open the 2.6MB 
> > file, but when I try and do a search-and-replace (| => ',') the gedit 
> > app hangs. I'm thinking more memory in the PC will help.
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> [I inadvertitely removed gedit-list from cc in the previous response]
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> As suggested by another guy, does the file in question have very long
> lines and you have word wrapping turned on? This can cause big
> performance problems... unfortunately it's a pathological behavior of
> GtkTextView and we can't do much about it.
> 
> Paolo
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I do have word-wrap turned on. I turned it off and it still gives me the
same proble of hanging. The lines in the file are not long 30 chars
length for each line. The problem seems to come when I do a Replace
function to search for the | character and replace it with the ','
characters. There are several thousands instances of the | character in
the file.

Is there perhaps a command line that I can use?