These days I'm working on log files sized around 300mb. Vim is slow and some times stop responding. Geany edior works most of the time. Do you guys have any recommendations?
* lnav about 4 seconds to index[1] and display
* vim about a second to display
* emacs about 3 seconds to display
This is on a late 2013 27-inch iMac with a 3.5Ghz i7 and the file cached.
[1] - Indexing in lnav involves parsing all log lines to extract their timestamp and log level (status codes in this case)
For performant buffer-wide operations (:g, :%s), I had success with using vim like an improved sed by passing in commands directly via the command line. That was noticeably faster than opening vim up and running the commands before exiting e.g.
# join together lines delimited by LF into one line, then convert all CRLF into LF
vim -Es \
-c 'g/[^^M]$/.,/^M$/join' \
-c ':%s/^M$//g' \
-c 'wq'https://github.com/arximboldi/ewig
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