[Nottingham] newbie Hi!

Andy Davidson andy at nosignal.org
Sun Jan 8 11:36:40 GMT 2006


Alex Tibbles wrote:
> Just be careful how big the file is - multi-gig logs
> files should not be searched with less in my
> experience. I think it holds all the paged data in
> memory.

Nonono, opening large files in less is no problem at all, its people who 
open large files in vi(m) when they want to do paging instead of editing 
that cause me grief.  And they do.  Sheesh.

-a



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