Free Text Editors to Open Large Text files

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Every week in my company, we go through the process of opening large log files (over 200 MB) and search and edit text. We searched out a few Text Editors that can make our lives easier and open these large files without hanging the system. Here are some Text Editors that are free with an impressive feature list:

Vim/gVim (Graphical VIM)

Vim is an advanced text editor that seeks to provide the power of the de-facto Unix editor 'Vi', with a more complete feature set.

Platform Supported: Windows, MAC OS X, Linux, BSD and Unix.

Cream

Cream is a modern configuration of the powerful and famousVim, You can check it’s lengthy feature list here

Platform Supported: Windows, GNU/Linux, and FreeBSD.

GNU Emacs

GNU Emacs is an extensible, customizable text editor—and more. Amongst other features, it has syntax highlighting, can open large files and has Unicode support.

Platform Supported: Windows, MAC OS X, Linux, BSD and Unix.

JujuEdit

JujuEdit is a file/text editor with syntax highlighting and advanced find/replace algorithms. Amongst other features, this editor can open very large files and has Unicode support.

Platform Supported: Windows

Notepad2

Notepad2 is a fast and light-weight Notepad-like text editor with syntax highlighting. This program can be run out of the box without installation, and does not touch your system's registry. We have tried opening a 200MB file with this editor and have no issues so far.

Platform Supported: Windows

You may also want to read this - Comparison of Text Editors

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