Anyone know a good text editor for lots of files at once (more than Notepad++ can handle quickly)

[imkira3]

I am working on something quite large, and have been using bulk editors to do a lot of the work. The files are very similar you see, with slight differences that when arranged by category, I can add those slight differences in through bulk edits converting months of work to less than an hour. Until now I have been working on these individual categories, and the most I had to edit was about 4,000 files at once. But, now I am finished with categorical editing and it's time to go in and do a few final edits on every single file at once. That's 40,804 files that need to be opened at once, and every file I open seems to slow Notepad++ drastically because I have to open every single file at the same time before I can edit. I need something I can point at a directory and tell it to change "this text" to "this text" in every sub-directory, as this time it seems my favourite text editor has failed me. I see a few promising candidates on google already, but I wonder which are your favorites? I need a good one, something light, specifically designed for multiple files. I'm looking online now

 

[bucanero]

well, I assume that you're using Windows, but in Linux (and other *nix), you could use many command line options such as grep and sed.

Here's a nice list of examples:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions...tring-in-multiple-files-in-linux-command-line

 

[kozarovv]

When i did PS2onPS4-Widescreen, i edited around 10000 files in notepad++ without any issue. All depend what you need to do.
You wrote that you need to open every single file to edit. This is not true for bulk edits.

You can use that tab to do what you want if i understand correctly your intentions.
This don't require opening files, etc. Support regex, and extended mode, and is pretty fast.

 

[imkira3]

When i did PS2onPS4-Widescreen, i edited around 10000 files in notepad++ without any issue. All depend what you need to do.
You wrote that you need to open every single file to edit. This is not true for bulk edits.

You can use that tab to do what you want if i understand correctly your intentions.
This don't require opening files, etc. Support regex, and extended mode, and is pretty fast.

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OMG I could kiss you. No homo. It's a saying lol thanks, that's exactly what I needed and I'll check it out in a bit