Notes: edit a text file of any size (#47)
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The editor held the whole note in memory and stopped at 16 KB. It now keeps
a window of the file around the cursor, and the rest on the card as a list
of pieces (notes::NoteDocument). Memory with a note open is what it was.

Up to 64 KB a save rewrites the file, as before. Above, the five-second
save appends what changed to <note>.edit, and the file is rewritten on
leaving the note, with a progress bar. After a power cut, opening the note
picks the edit up where it was saved; a rewrite cut short is finished or
dropped, never half applied.

Also: Ctrl with Fn+Up/Down go to the start and end of the note; the
consoles' `key` command takes ctrl-, alt- and shift-; the Storage App's
`e` no longer refuses a big file.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01EhqxQ49eCju4CzKYNjZzwT
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## How big can a note be?
Up to 16 KB while it is edited. A larger text file opens read-only in the [Storage App](/guide/storage/). Editing a text file of any size is planned.
Any size the card has room for. The editor only keeps the part around the cursor in memory, so a megabyte of text opens at once. A long note is rewritten when you leave it, which takes about a second for each 450 KB. See [Long notes](/guide/notes/#long-notes).
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