Comment by ⛄️ gim

tbf, it's quite surprising vim had problems... I routinely opened *really* huge files and never had issues (although not on a low-end device, or at least it was a long time ago).

if you know you won't need that functionality you might want to try disabling vim swap files (.swp)

Nov 07 · 5 weeks ago

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vim or emacs didn't choke, they just can't touchscreen or file pick in general. So question is which app and how do i open a file in it? plz no typing weird android storage path with soft keyboard ToT

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Lagrange: the text editor — OK hear me out: I'm on a low end quad core 1.3ghz Android 6 device with measly 1gb of ram and all I wanted was to edit a big`ol half a meg plain text public domain book and i freakin couldn't! Every text editor is either too weird to even open the file (vim,emacs) or too weak and chokes while opening or selecting text. Lagrange on the other hand let me open it with just a split second hiccup and search and select and copy without issues. Lagrange's text selection...