From: void <system.void@gmail.com>
Subject: Emacs 21.4 maximum buffer size limit
Date: Fri, 12 May 2006 22:09:45 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2eda38240605121909r14aa3057pe54bc91dc00ec9b2@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
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Greetings,
This message concerns a "bug" in the latest version of Emacs (as well as all
previous ones). I find myself restricted with the current maximum-buffer
limit of GNU Emacs. Trying to edit a 264MB text file (data from a geophysics
simulation) is impossible without first splitting same file into multiple
pieces and later rejoining them. I'm aware that this limitation stems from
an inherent restriction of elisp, but I kindly request an ugly (or elegant,
if possible) hack for future versions of Emacs. Both vim and nano don't seem
to have such a low file-size restriction, and I've heard XEmacs can handle
text files up to 1GB in size. As much as I love working with GNU Emacs, I
really don't want to have to learn the arcane commands of vim to work with
files of such magnitude.
Thank you GNU.
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2006-05-13 8:59 ` Emacs 21.4 maximum buffer size limit Eli Zaretskii
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