I've opened it and keep starting the process of copying some of the necessary lines (approx 500,000) and moving them to another tab
Since Zeus is really a programmer's editor it was not really been designed as a
very large file editor.
but every time I grab 10,000 lines or more, the program seems to become non-responsive.
As a test I created a
120 Meg file:
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c:\temp>dir big.cpp
Volume in drive D has no label.
Volume Serial Number is FAE3-1040
Directory of d:\temp
4/08/2009 13:51 129,021,480 big.cpp
1 File(s) 129,021,480 bytes
0 Dir(s) 54,933,577,728 bytes free
This was my experience editing this file in Zeus:
- The big.cpp file contained 4,175,640 lines of code
- It took about 10 seconds to load the file
- It took about 8 seconds to make a change and save the file back to disk
- It took about 3 seconds to close the file
- It took less than a second to copy 10,000 lines of marked text from the document to the clipboard
- It took less than a second to paste the text into a new tab
- The keyboard input was sluggish
So I had no troubles performing the task you descibed
but the keyboard was definitely sluggish
Since Zeus loads the file into memory the level of responsiveness will vary a lot depending on the amount of RAM on the machine. In my case the machine was running
Windows XP and had
4 Gigs of RAM.
even another program designed to do what I am trying to do
A better option might be be to find a
very large file editor as these editors have been specifically designed for editing large files.
I've heard
Vim or
Emacs can do this but I am not sure
Cheers Jussi
PS: Which
version of Zeus are you running and how are you marking the
10,000 lines of text
