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    4 starsmohit | Shared With: Everyone - Mar 29 2007 | tools, downloads, editors, windows, software, hex editor
    EditPad Lite - Free Text Editor for Windows

    While Emacs is my primary editor, I use this editor to search and manipulate very large files. The only downside is that the text mode is much slower than the hex mode. What I typically do for a large text file is open it in hex mode, locate the relevant section (you can search for text even in this mode), and copy/paste it into a smaller text mode buffer.

    Quoted: EditPad Lite: A fine text editor with all the necessary basic features. Free for non-commercial use. An ideal replacement for Notepad.

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    • derek - Mar 29 2007

      Yeah, Emacs is definitely the wrong answer for very large files. But this editor isn't free when used commercially, big downside.

    • mohit - Mar 29 2007

      do you have other suggestions?

    • derek - Mar 29 2007

      `grep -C' usually gets me what I need :)

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