A reliable text editor
May 9th, 2007 by ae
I was complaining to someone the other day about how most text editors fail to deal with large files. I was trying to edit a 8mb sql file and my default editors eclipse and cream (a vim extension) both couldn’t handle it. I then tried emacs and jEdit neither of which I particularly like. jEdit at least opened the file. But the interface is clunky and on my system at least, wont go past 800×600 screen real estate….
In the end I made all the text edits to the sql file using sed which is a handy (and quick) command line tool. But I was still disturbed….
Anyway, I read a blog post somewhere that said scribes was the go. So I installed it and gave it a whirl on my latest sql file which was 38mb.
It took a few seconds to open, but it DID open and the first thing you notice is that (for gnome users at least) it looks like a gnome editor (unlike jEdit which screams “I was made in the 90’s in java“).
The template system is also very cool. It reminds me a little of swanky Mac people and their TextMate. Rather than me trying to describe it go here and look at the example video. Which also shows the bookmark feature which is cool. Check out its other features here. Oh and its open source too…of course.
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