From: Xah Lee <xahlee@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: "maximum buffer size exceeded" in 64-bit emacs 22.1.1 (64G RAM)
Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 18:03:30 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <22c4c51e-fab9-4ef7-abeb-0a82bed00c18@z23g2000prd.googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 86iqlxmaxv.fsf@timbral.net
On Mar 25, 4:37 pm, Evans Winner <tho...@timbral.net> wrote:
> Mike <tutu...@gmail.com> writes:
>
> I recently tried opening a 5GB file
> ...
> [1] http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/EmacsFileSizeLimit
yeah, this is a frequently asked problem. It was discussed by emacs
developers here now and there, but as far as i know it's not something
active for fix.
i think it might be intuitive to look at what's the max file size
other editor supports, so we can get a sense how emacs does in
comparison.
i don't have much data on this... but from experience in 2000, i think
i was able to open large files in vi, but not in emacs. (the file size
was prob a hundred megabyte or more) From my experience of using
BBEdit/TextWrangler, i doubt it can do better than emacs, and same for
MicrosoftWord. It is also my guess that Eclipse, JEdit, Xcode, are
probably all worse than emacs in this regard...
Xah
∑ http://xahlee.org/
☄
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-03-26 1:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-03-25 18:00 "maximum buffer size exceeded" in 64-bit emacs 22.1.1 (64G RAM) Mike
2009-03-25 23:37 ` Evans Winner
2009-03-26 1:03 ` Xah Lee [this message]
2009-03-26 15:33 ` Mike
2009-03-26 19:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
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