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From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org>
To: sds@gnu.org
Cc: Mathias Dahl <mathias.dahl@gmail.com>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: feature request: view part of file
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2012 02:32:38 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wr396bpl.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87d351uap6.fsf@gnu.org>

Sam Steingold writes:

 > Also, does anyone know what xemacs uses for viewing huge files?

Big buffers.  XEmacs topped out at 1GB buffers (on 32-bit platforms)
in 1998 or so, and since then there's been no serious demand for an
increase in supported file size -- we never even bothered with large
file support on 32-bit platforms.  (There was pushback against
suggestions that the 31-bit type be characters to directly support the
ISO 10646 character model, so some users did care about files bigger
than 512MB.)

I imagine some people have personal hacks, but as far as I know there
is no huge file viewer in our distribution.





  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-06-14 17:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-06-13 20:52 feature request: view part of file Sam Steingold
2012-06-13 23:16 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-06-14 16:20   ` Sam Steingold
2012-06-14 16:53     ` Mathias Dahl
2012-06-14 17:32     ` Stephen J. Turnbull [this message]
2012-06-14 18:21       ` Paul Eggert
     [not found]     ` <jwvd3517qww.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>
     [not found]       ` <CABrcCQ5zDfB2tw9DRrwpCZmDqHPc+BB6W5w9ULNU95e_v4yyJw@mail.gmail.com>
     [not found]         ` <87395xu768.fsf@gnu.org>
     [not found]           ` <CABrcCQ6rpG9qhsCO+ZEpTiNqbQRtg-PBeb=q_B5F8YgrGxoWKA@mail.gmail.com>
     [not found]             ` <jwvvcit67sc.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>
2012-06-14 19:34               ` Sam Steingold
2012-06-14 21:29 ` Sam Steingold
2012-06-18 20:34   ` Štěpán Němec
2012-07-19 17:58     ` Samuel Bronson
2012-07-19 19:38       ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2012-08-04 11:58   ` Andrey Kotlarski
2013-01-18 23:30   ` Vitalie Spinu
2013-01-18 23:52     ` Vitalie Spinu
2013-01-19  6:54       ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-01-19 10:18         ` Paul Eggert
2013-01-19 10:51           ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-01-19 12:47             ` Paul Eggert
2013-01-19 13:47               ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-01-19 19:00                 ` Paul Eggert

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