Right... so I have this large large large text file. 862 MB. And I wanted to change the first few lines on it.
First I tried the usual editors... BBEdit, Coda, TextMate, TextWrangler etc. All crashed and burned.
After my last post on FTP in Eclipse, I started using Coda as an alternative editor for CFML. Must say that it is one of the nicest applications that I've used (sorry Windows users, it is a Mac only app).
It support CFML code completion, snippets and syntax highlighting. Very quick and easy to use.
In fact, I switched all text files to open in Coda. It is quite extensible and provides quite a few language modules for syntax highlighting and code completion.
Since I'm usually twiddling with Apache conf files, I found an Apache language module (http://www.codingmonkeys.de/subethaedit/modes.html). However, that module is quite old... it was last updated in 2004.
So, I decided to spend a little time and bring it up to date. It now supports all directives and keywords up to Apache 2.2.
Can't believe it, just can't believe! All this while I've been finding all kinds of ways to try and work with ColdFusion content on FTP servers, but there is a way built right into Ecplise to connect to an FTP site!