Best Free Text Editor Supporting *More Than* 4GB Files? [closed]

Answer 1

Tweak is a hex editor which can handle edits to very large files, including inserts and deletes.

Answer 2

For windows, unix, or Mac? On the Mac or *nix you can use command line or GUI versions of emacs or vim.

For the Mac: TextWrangler to handle big files well. I'm not versed enough on the Windows landscape to help out there.

Answer 3

I found that FAR commander could open large files ( I tried 4.2 GB xml file) And it does not load the entire file in memory and works fast.

Answer 4

Opened 5GB file (quickly) with:

1) Hex Editor Neo

2) 010 editor

Answer 5

Emacs can handle huge file sizes and you can use it on Windows or *nix.

Answer 6

glogg could also be considered, for a different usage:

Caveat (reported by Simon Tewsi in the comments, Feb. 2013)

One caveat - has two search functions, Main Search and Quick Find.
The lower one, which I assume is Quick Find, is at least an order of magnitude slower than the upper one, which is fast.