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0 pointscatillac4y ago0 comments

I don’t use sublime in my day to day, but always keep it on hand because it’s the only IDE that quickly opens for viewing very large csv or similar files without a hitch. PyCharm, VSCode, Aton all barf under these conditions.

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yingbo4y ago

Just for the speed of large file, on macOS, I find the BBEdit is great too. The basic functions of BBEdit can be used for free even.

rgacote4y ago

Happy to see another satisfied BBEdit user. Been my go-to Mac editor since Mac Plus.

racl1014y ago

I loved BBEdit and/or TextMate for the Mac. Both were great.

I switched to Sublime after I had to work on Linux machines for a while.

enahs-sf4y ago

For these instances I just use vim or sed/awk/etc.

dharmab4y ago

Sublime easily handles files that make my Vim slow to a crawl. Agreed on using sed/awk/(rip)grep/other pipeline tools where it makes sense.

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softawre4y ago

Sublime will barf if the file gets big enough too. In that case use something like HxD

mroche4y ago

How big of a file are we talking? I've had to open multi-gig Maya ASCII flies before to find broken nodes and Sublime was always my go to solution. Scrolling performance takes a hit, and the file can take some time to open, but overall works reasonably well.

mb77334y ago

That's interesting, because I've noticed the exact opposite between VSCode and Sublime. What version of sublime are you using?

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