but it can open files as big as your available RAM while staying fast
This is BBEdit's (and TextWrangler's) biggest asset to me. When other text editors on any platform on any machine choke on large files, BBEdit just doesn't care.
This is BBEdit's (and TextWrangler's) biggest asset to me. When other text editors on any platform on any machine choke on large files, BBEdit just doesn't care.
Unfortunately, that stopped being the case since they refactored the text display UI somewhere around version 9.
About 3-4 years ago it stopped being nearly as performant with large files (even a couple MB).
I’ve never had a problem with either BBEdit or Textwrangler mangling files. I can believe there may have been such a bug at one point, but I must have sidestepped it - perhaps it was caught and fixed quickly.