From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jason Rumney Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: opening large files (few hundred meg) Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 13:50:37 -0800 (PST) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <2adae7bb-c775-4a6e-bf83-66a8618b326d@s12g2000prg.googlegroups.com> References: <1f94fef6-a335-4ce5-8d4b-7e87025a28dc@e32g2000prn.googlegroups.com> <87r6g1esga.fsf@gmx.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1201560046 25991 80.91.229.12 (28 Jan 2008 22:40:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 22:40:46 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jan 28 23:41:06 2008 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 1JJcez-00038T-M8 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 28 Jan 2008 23:41:01 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JJceY-0005O1-RS for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 28 Jan 2008 17:40:34 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!s12g2000prg.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 10 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 83.67.23.108 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1201557037 18635 127.0.0.1 (28 Jan 2008 21:50:37 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 21:50:37 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: s12g2000prg.googlegroups.com; posting-host=83.67.23.108; posting-account=pYxWjwkAAACsHSUNDoi5N05LVCTP7PVM User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.8.1.11) Gecko/20071127 Firefox/2.0.0.11,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:155662 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:51045 Archived-At: On 28 Jan, 20:36, Andreas R=F6hler wrote: > What about a large-text-mode: sed reads chunks of text > in, one by one, letting Emacs forget the rest. Than > only the line-no matters, sent to sed. Such solutions have been proposed before, but the likely way that a user will navigate through such a huge file is by searching, so just paging parts of the file in and out is only part of the solution, it must also offer searching to be useful.