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

Answer 1

Jeff Atwood has a post on this here: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000229.html

He eventually went with Edit Pad Pro, because "Based on my prior usage history, I felt that EditPad Pro was the best fit: it's quite fast on large text files, has best-of-breed regex support, and it doesn't pretend to be an IDE."

Answer 2

I've had to look at monster(runaway) log files (20+ GB). I used hexedit FREE version which can work with any size files. It is also open source. It is a Windows executable.

Answer 3

Have you tried context editor? It is small and fast.

Answer 4

EmEditor should handle this. As their site claims:

EmEditor is now able to open even larger than 248 GB (or 2.1 billion lines) by opening a portion of the file with the new custom bar - Large File Controller. The Large File Controller allows you to specify the beginning point, end point, and range of the file to be opened. It also allows you to stop the opening of the file and monitor the real size of the file and the size of the temporary disk available.

Not free though..

Answer 5

I also like notepad++.

Answer 6

Sorry to post on such an old thread, but I tried several of the tips here, and none of them worked for me.

It's slightly different than a text editor, but I found that Beyond Compare could handle an extremely large (3.6 Gig) file on my Vista 32-bit machine.

This is a file that that Emacs, Large Text File Viewer, HexEdit, and Notepad++ all choked on.

-Eric