Yes, another problem...

I'm looking for a Windows text editor that can handle megahuge text files -- such as a Poser .cr2 file. I'm trying to hand-hack the Vicky 2 figure (yes, I know what I'm doing) but I need a plain text editor that won't go wheels-up when I load a 20MB+ file.

Notepad just hands over to Wordpad, and Wordpad can load and save but won't let me make any actual changes to the file when I cut-and-paste the new bits in.

I went surfing earlier tonight and picked up NoteTab Light, which was advertised as "opening any size of file". Opened Vicky2, made the changes, saved... and the file's shrunk from 20-odd to about 11MB. No wonder it wouldn't load... I seem to be hitting a hard-coded limit here, I just can't get the whole file loaded in one go.

OK, here's my question. For you brave souls warped enough to do what I'm trying, what text editor (Win98, and preferably free- or share-ware) do you use to edit huge .cr2 files?

Attached Link: http://www.editpadpro.com/editpadlite.html

Give Edit Pad a shot... I know that a huge number of developers in this community use oen version or another and I swear I couldn't live without it. "EditPad does not impose a limit on the size of files you can open and edit with it. Also, the maximum length of a single line is not limited. (Most other editors cannot handle lines longer than, say, a thousand characters, even if they do claim to support files of unlimited size.)"

Ultra-edit No limit, amazing tools Code colouring ... great tool http://www.ultraedit.com/

Did you double check the results of NoteTab? If it is substituting tabs for groups of spaces that might explain such a file size change.

Daverj, yes I did check the saved file -- it cuts off short in the middle of what I think is the head morphs definitions. And the tabs and spaces are still tabs and spaces.

Thanks for the other two links, I'll try them tomorrow. Getting a bit late now (nearly oh-dark-thirty) for messing about installing new programs.

Attached Link: http://www.textpad.com

Textpad is my weapon of choice. I had to hack a 28MB .pz3 last night and Textpad didn't even blink. It has line numbers, auto-indents, opens multiple files at one, and you can do find/replace on multiple docs at one time. And it doesn't screw them up like Wordpad can!

Attached Link: http://www.crimsoneditor.com

Might want to giv Crimson Editor a whirl as well, it's my favorite, and its free. :)

Attached Link: EmEditor

Simply the best! :-)

Attached Link: http://download.com.com/3302-2352-904159.html

I still stand by Programmer's File Editor. For only 600K and Free it has never let me down and I haven't crashed it or found a file it can't open yet, even a 100meg PZ2 and it performed searches and replacements like it was a 100K file!

i use emacs for this kind of work. that one is really a bit more than just an editor... so possibly not what you are looking for. (starting another editor war????)

TEXTPAD! Call out the troops!

Attached Link: http://vim.sourceforge.net

Vim. A learning curve to get everything out of it (unless you already know vi), but Vim does have Windows GUI for the basic Find, Replace, etc., stuff. And it's very, very fast. And scriptable. And free (as in beer and speech). vim.sourceforge.net. Also _dodger has developed a syntax file for Poser, so the keywords are highlighted.

Editeur. I use it to edit the 600MB + XML files one of our partners sends to us.

Z pad : it has a jump function for Poser that is invaluable to me. It handles Poser5 specificities too.

I use EditPad Lite (free) and like it a lot. Vim is a more powerful editor but a steeper learning curve.