Open large files or projects

[ediejohnny]

I know it isn't new, but 16Mb is too small to open some Apache log files, backup .sql files, many .txt files with large datas, some .xml with thousands of products, for example... Even Notepad on Windows can open 200Mb+ files just fine, Sublime Text can process 1Gb+ of data, even Notepad++.

Other issue is big projects with more than 30,000+ files. With NPM, Bower, NodeJS you can get 30k+ files easily on your project, and I know there's an extension to prevent Brackets to read those folders, but that is not the right solution, the solution is to make Brackets just don't read unopened folders and show the content for only that that you open.

We're on the Internet of Things, common, you guys can do more than that, Brackets is amazing, beautiful, clean... But this just get it down on the list of the best text editors.

[petetnt]

Hi @ediejohnny,

the solution is to make Brackets just don't read unopened folders and show the content for only that that you open

It's only a solution until you want to do things such as finding, replacing, code hints and such. Thus some kinda of way of deciding which files to parse and which ones to not is always needed, at least in Brackets context.

Obviously there are ways to make the situation somewhat better. I champion an approach called black-boxing myself, which is outlined (for example) here: #12417 (comment)