Text editor for large files (S)

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An in-depth discussion of K - 5 educational software. The programs are
categorized by subjext and are rated. REQUIRES a wordprocessor or some
type - the file is too large to be opened by TeachText. Freeware.

Part of the June 1993 Home & School Mac collection. StuffIt 3.0 archive.

[Archived as /info-mac/info/k-5-ed-software-guide.hqx; 13K]




I asked what is the best application to view and edit large text-files
_without huge amounts of memory_ and with the option to automatically
wrap lines longer than the screen _without adding LF/CR_ (auto-wrap)?
Search and replace would be nice too.

**TeachText** and **TexEdit** have auto-wrap but they can open only
<30K files. **SaintEdit** has auto-wrap but it needs much application
memory when opening big files. **Edit II** is also memory-hungry with
large files. It has auto-wrap-option but there it means that it just
inserts CR's at the right margin automatically.

It turns out that **BBEdit** is also memory-dependent so it can't open
huge files with little available memory. Even though its application
memory is only 300K it uses System memory when dealing with large
files. BBEdit 2.2.2's manual says: