Feb 20, 2026, 13:25

Fri, 20 Feb 2026 13:25:13 +0000
nvi, vim

@r1w1s1 @osnews

One thing I noticed about #nvi as opposed to #vim. #nvi is able to edit very large text files, were #vim can take a much longer time to load that file for edit. That is because it seems #vim reads the full file into memory, were #nvi seems to reads portions into memory.

But to be fair, no one in their right mind would edit a file as large as I am referring to :) But I have done it a couple of times due to database loads at work.