I have renewed unmitigated respect for EmEditor, a powerful editor that handles large text files with ease and grace. I am talking about a 500MB text file with 3.2 million lines and it still sorted it and deleted duplicates in it in a few seconds. In comparison, CotEditor on Mac, despite my delight in discovering its support for Unicode script/code block regex like \p{Han}, can't even handle one quarter of that (800K lines) without hanging indefinitely. It's such a pity that EmEditor, my favorite text editor bar none since I found it in 2000s, is Windows-only.

Verdict: 5 stars

Pros

• Large file support
• Onigmo regex engine supports \p{Han} and the like.
• Find and replace in files
• Column mode
• Table mode

Cons

• Windows-only