Linux text editor = or > BBEdit

[J.T.Blaylock]

Eight freakin' gigs?! WOW! Well, you asked for comments. You didn't=20
specify relevant or intelligent ones. :-) I haven't fooled with it=20
much, but I'm having trouble getting my head around emacs, and vi for=20
that matter. I did manage to fake my way through adding my self to=20
/etc/sudoers with visudo, though. I have books. I'm having an even=20
harder time getting my head around $170 for a text editor. College=20
students love free stuff. I'm still only using pico. I guess my text=20
editing with Linux is simple enough so far for just pico. I like to=20
think of myself as an =DCbergeek in training, capable of understanding=20=

advanced computing topics, so its a little embarrassing when I find=20
myself reading tutorials for text editors. Linux sure has given me a=20
run for my money, geek-wise. Strange, considering Linux is free. I=20
actually don't have YDL installed right now. I felt it was disrupting=20
my iMac's aura. I will try again when I have $90 for an external=20
FireWire/USB 2 HD enclosure for my $60 after rebate 160GB Western=20
Digital and YDL 4. Wow, so much stuff you all don't care about. Sorry.

J.T.
On Jun 3, 2004, at 7:31 PM, Kevin Murphy wrote:

> Greg Hamilton wrote:
>
>> emacs.
>> Then you'll grow a long beard and start wearing sandals with socks=20
>> and your standards of personal hygiene might slip a little but your=20=

>> general quality of life
>
> Hah, I was wondering what's been happening to me lately.
>
> Re: BBEdit vs emacs: one thing I've noticed with emacs, at least on OS=20=

> X, is that it does not handle huge files well, unlike BBEdit (or so I=20=

> recall - it's been a long time since I've used BBEdit).   When I try=20=

> to edit a file larger than virtual memory using emacs (like an 8 GB=20
> XML file I downloaded yesterday), it aborts.
>
> Any comments on this?
>
> -Kevin Murphy
>
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