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e started by examining some Linux log files, a common task for the curious Linux user. Due to some work we’d been doing with a backup program that had encountered a lot of errors, the file had ballooned to 29MB, and gave warnings that it was a large file. When editing the file in , CPU usage was high. Being fair, it was the only one of the editors to attempt colour highlighting of the file.

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