From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Xah Lee Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help 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) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <22c4c51e-fab9-4ef7-abeb-0a82bed00c18@z23g2000prd.googlegroups.com> References: <2f9b8f84-089e-46f6-b5cc-ca4d3edef0c5@j12g2000vbl.googlegroups.com> <86iqlxmaxv.fsf@timbral.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1238057584 15157 80.91.229.12 (26 Mar 2009 08:53:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 08:53:04 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 26 09:54:22 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LmlLw-0008Po-FR for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 26 Mar 2009 09:54:20 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:44582 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LmlKZ-0005gW-CN for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 26 Mar 2009 04:52:55 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!z23g2000prd.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 26 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.6.175.142 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1238029410 29431 127.0.0.1 (26 Mar 2009 01:03:30 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 01:03:30 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: z23g2000prd.googlegroups.com; posting-host=24.6.175.142; posting-account=bRPKjQoAAACxZsR8_VPXCX27T2YcsyMA User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X 10_4_11; en) AppleWebKit/525.27.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.2.1 Safari/525.27.1, gzip(gfe), gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:167989 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 04:49:02 -0400 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:63284 Archived-At: On Mar 25, 4:37=C2=A0pm, Evans Winner wrote: > Mike writes: > > =C2=A0 =C2=A0 I recently tried opening a 5GB file > ... > [1] =C2=A0http://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 =E2=88=91 http://xahlee.org/ =E2=98=84