What’s a good app for viewing huge text files in Windows eg 10s Mb or more.

I’ve downloaded less but its command line driven and doesn’t make cut & paste very easy between windows.

Word, wordpad, notepad etc just grind to a hope opening the files.

notepad++ ?

http://www.textpad.com

Crimson Editor or Large Text File Viewer

UltraEdit is The Daddy of text file viewers.

http://www.ultraedit.com/

+1 for textpad – been using it for 9 years now – excellent (and free) bit of software 🙂

Recently I’ve switched to Programmer’s Notepad for my code editing duties. but I still keep textpad on standby for some stuff.

I use vim for all text editing but not sure it would be happy with 10Mb!

textpad.

vim should be OK

I use vim for all text editing

Is Vim the singlespeed of text editors?

I just don’t see the appeal myself. Why use an editor where you need a manual to tell you how to delete characters?

It’s not the most novice friendly of editors but is very powerful when mastered. I’ve been using vi since the 80’s so it’s in the blood 🙂

thanks, will try a few of those.

Another vote for Ultraedit, although Notepad++ isn’t bad. And it’s free.

VIM is for amateurs. VI is for the real perverts.

VIM is for amateurs. VI is for the real perverts.

VI, why not just go the whole hog and use Ed??

Or better still…

Large Text File Viewer – no edit functionality but will open >1gb files if you need to have a peek inside

VIM is for amateurs

Always preferred VIGOUR when it really comes down to it…