GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 549959
Open huge files that cannot fit in memory
Last modified: 2020-11-24 09:59:06 UTC
Please describe the problem: mjohansson@bang:~$ ls -la test2.sql -rw-r--r-- 1 mjohansson mjohansson 2122562112 2008-05-06 10:30 test2.sql mjohansson@bang:~$ gedit test2.sql [ ** In the gedit window: ** ] Could not open the file /home/mjohansson/test2.sql. Not enough available memory to open the file. Please close some running applications and try again. It shouldn't try to load the whole document at once if it can't. Steps to reproduce: 1. Open a file bigger than your amount of physical and swap-memory Actual results: The Errormessage appears in gedit-Window. Expected results: The file is opened Does this happen every time? Yes Other information: This bug was filed at Launchpad: https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gedit/+bug/128497
I confirm, for a general-purpose text editor it can be useful to open really big files. A workaround is to use command line utilities: grep, sed, etc.
Mass-closing of all gedit bugzilla tickets. Special "code" to find again all those gedit bugzilla tickets that were open before the mass-closing: 2bfe1b0590a78457e1f1a6a90fb975f5878cb60064ccfe1d7db76ca0da52f0f3 By searching the above sha256sum in bugzilla, the gedit contributors can find again the tickets. We may be interested to do so when we work on a specific area of the code, to at least know the known problems and possible enhancements. We do this mass-closing because bugzilla.gnome.org is being replaced by gitlab.gnome.org.