[philsnow]

> Few environments will provide this either though.

I used vim for ~12 years and then emacs for ~12 years, and this emacs has never been able to handle large files well. vim meanwhile has zero trouble with files of any size that I've ever tried.

"Vim can do it" doesn't counter you saying "few environments" though. I haven't needed to look much farther than vim/emacs.

[rusk]

I was thinking more along the lines of eclipse or IntelliJ … yes of course vi/m can do it and that would be my go to for quick edits on the console, the kind of thing that typically lends itself to large files funnily enough.

Now that I’m talking about it I do remember a couple of times where vi (rather than vim) choked on some very very large files but she always got there.