From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
To: Dan Nicolaescu <dann@gnu.org>
Cc: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>,
Dmitry Antipov <antipov@mvista.com>,
emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: --with-wide-int
Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2011 14:35:06 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv8vn0aw1q.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <yxq4nxocee0.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (Dan Nicolaescu's message of "Mon, 28 Nov 2011 13:04:23 -0500")
> Log files produced by various tools are much more interesting that Rmail
> (which is not that popular).
But these files are less likely to fall in the 512MB-2GB window, in my
experience. [ Also, you can much more easily work around the 512MB
limit for those files e.g. by grepping them first].
> Even read-only access is valuable for such file sometimes. Is it
> something people do every day? Probably not, but it's very useful
> when needed.
I really think that a special "very large file" mode that manually swaps
chunks in and out of Emacs buffers would work better for such cases.
It could even easily be made to work for files larger than 2GB.
Even isearch could "transparently" search through the whole file by
using an appropriate isearch-wrap-function or
isearch-search-fun-function.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-11-28 19:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-11-26 2:15 immediate strings Dmitry Antipov
2011-11-26 7:56 ` Andreas Schwab
2011-11-26 8:05 ` Paul Eggert
2011-11-26 10:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-11-26 14:28 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-11-26 14:30 ` Dmitry Antipov
2011-11-26 21:13 ` Paul Eggert
2011-11-28 4:19 ` --with-wide-int Stefan Monnier
2011-11-28 7:56 ` --with-wide-int Paul Eggert
2011-11-28 16:52 ` --with-wide-int Stefan Monnier
2011-11-28 18:04 ` --with-wide-int Dan Nicolaescu
2011-11-28 18:34 ` --with-wide-int Eli Zaretskii
2011-11-28 19:35 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2011-11-29 4:26 ` --with-wide-int Stephen J. Turnbull
2011-11-29 7:35 ` --with-wide-int Paul Eggert
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