alt Hacker NewsIt will crash.
But so will every other tool, because it is things like a C++ header file with 128MB of PNG data hardcoded as an array.
Editors don’t even open those files.
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grey-area • today at 7:40 AM
Perhaps it could just check the length of files and not crash?!? Don’t you think that’s sensible?
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dmitrygr • today at 7:55 AM
> Editors don’t even open those files.
vi opens multi-GB files just fine.
And for multi-TB files, "less -n" works.
You need to broaden your horizons about editors. Not all of then are javascript-based slopfests
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Fair enough.
But then I would rephrase that because it's confusing, and not doing justice to your tool.