From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Large file support (was: oops? read/write vs type of length parameter) Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2011 20:00:24 +0300 Message-ID: <83ei57quaf.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87wrj1jhfc.fsf@rho.meyering.net> <87d3ktjb9l.fsf@rho.meyering.net> <877hb1j7lz.fsf@rho.meyering.net> <877hb1m0jy.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <87wrj0fo8x.fsf@rho.meyering.net> <8739ln1u2c.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87tye3zfv1.fsf@lifelogs.com> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1302627775 8710 80.91.229.12 (12 Apr 2011 17:02:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2011 17:02:55 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Ted Zlatanov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Apr 12 19:02:51 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Q9gzK-0002Ee-Gq for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 12 Apr 2011 19:02:50 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51241 helo=lists2.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q9gzJ-0005AG-Qc for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 12 Apr 2011 13:02:49 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:45018) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q9gzD-00050E-LS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Apr 2011 13:02:44 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q9gzC-0008J9-Cl for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Apr 2011 13:02:43 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout20.012.net.il ([80.179.55.166]:40094) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q9gzC-0008Iw-5r for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Apr 2011 13:02:42 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout20.012.net.il by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0LJJ00A00TYT3Z00@a-mtaout20.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Apr 2011 20:02:28 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([77.127.31.148]) by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0LJJ008L5U025FG0@a-mtaout20.012.net.il>; Tue, 12 Apr 2011 20:02:28 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <87tye3zfv1.fsf@lifelogs.com> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) X-Received-From: 80.179.55.166 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:138445 Archived-At: > From: Ted Zlatanov > Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2011 09:47:14 -0500 > > EZ> Of course, it doesn't! I made that change to be able to edit a 2.7GB > EZ> file, and after the change I actually was able to do that, whereas > EZ> before the change, I couldn't save the file after editing it. > > Wait, Emacs can edit large files now? That is great news! I didn't see > it in the NEWS file, thanks for doing it. Is it documented anywhere? First, this is only possible on a 64-bit host. And second, we are not there yet, although we are close, as the most basic editing already works. However, several bugs still remain, and I hope to work on squashing them soon. When it's done, there surely will be an announcement here. As for documentation, there's nothing to document, because we don't document bugs we fixed ;-)