Submitted via IRC for TheMightyBuzzard
A new major release of open source text editor GNU nano is here. GNU nano 3.0 reads files 70% faster and brings several other features.
GNU nano is one of the most popular terminal based text editors. Those who keep forgetting how to exit Vim, seek refuge with GNU nano. It's a godsend for beginners who have to deal with editing in the command line while the experienced nano fans just swear by it.
I wouldn't normally consider a new version of a text editor really newsworthy but a 70% read speed increase is interesting to investigate even if only for an example of how not to do things from the prior versions.
Source: https://itsfoss.com/nano-3-release/
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 16 2018, @05:40PM (1 child)
And how well does it perform when that 100mb is all on one line? Most editors can't handle things like that, which are becoming more and more common as web resources are white space stripped and lazy programmers directly export program data as single lined json.
(Score: 2) by shortscreen on Sunday September 16 2018, @06:41PM
Interesting test case. Opening the file is fine, editing the long line is a bit painful, as expected. Some other operations also became sluggish for reasons that are not immediately clear...