
Then you can open up the chunks to perform your edits. There is one other minor caveat when dealing with excessively large files in vim - you sometimes need to consider splitting the file into smaller chunks using the splitfile command in the terminal. When it comes to text editing, vim is a veritable powerhouse!
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But you can be insanely productive using it (once you've learnt how to use it!). Vim is a modal editor and is unlike any other editor you've used. If you aren't familiar with vim - you might want to try out the vimtutor command to learn some of the basics of vim. Then you can repeat the macro as many times as you like! And macros persist across sessions until you remove the macro, or overwrite its register with something else. In vim, you can easily record a macro that inserts a tab at the start of the current line and then moves the cursor to the next line.

I know if Editpad does this then there should be another editor out there that will do this.

My question is does anyone know and can explain how this may can be done in Scite or can someone suggest another text editor that I should look at for this function. But was hoping to move totally to Kali for this kind of stuff. I then can copy the white space into the search and replace field and then replace the white space with "admin " and that has worked pretty well. I use EditPad Lite 8 in Windows and it will let me put a white space in front of each line. What I really need is to start each line with "admin ". Reading some online it seems that Scite will not allow a line to start with a tab or a space.

I have looked in the options and searched around as to how I can put a "tab 0x09" in the front of all lines in a 500mb file. I need something to open 5 to 10 gig files and it seemed to be worth a try. I am looking for a text editor to easily work with my "beginner level" and decided to try Scite. If I should have posted somewhere else please move this to where it belongs. Not sure if this question should go here or in "General Linux topics " even though this would apply to all Linux I would think but since I am use Kali I decided to post here.
