put cursor on found text in less or vi?

[Peter Flynn]

On 25/09/2024 16:13, Karl Auer wrote:
> On Wed, 2024-09-25 at 09:19 -0400, Little Girl wrote:
>> I'm not sure how it would do with the length of lines you described,
>> but my weapon of choice is Geany and I absolutely adore it.
> 
> After that testimonial, how could I not check it out? :-)
> 
> I first tried a 2.5GB text file containing around a quarter-million
> lines of widely varying lengths, some around three-quarters of a
> million characters long.

I have occasionally had to open very large text files in Emacs without 
any trouble (it does courteously ask "Do you *really* want to open this 
500TB file?").

I hadn't heard of Geany. It sounds interesting, but I rarely need files 
that size — editing features (per filetype) are much more important for 
what I do.

Thanks for the tip.

Peter