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As an alternative, on Windows I've always been using Far Manager [1], it supports viewing files of arbitrary size without loading them in RAM. Supports encodings, search, doesn't explode on binary files, etc.

[1] https://www.farmanager.com/



Everything that is viewed is loaded in RAM or am I wrong? Perhaps it can load partial file? This looks like midnight commander.




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