From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: editing large files
Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2005 09:38:33 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <85ek6euhl2.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.12184.1129935330.20277.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Sebastian Luque <spluque@gmail.com> writes:
> I need to edit some relatively large files (~ 200 Mb), so I'm exceeding
> the maximum buffer size allowed by my Emacs (GNU Emacs 21.4.1
> (i486-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars) of 2005-10-02 on
> trouble, modified by Debian). Searching for solutions it seems that the
> only way to do this would be to use a 64-bit machine and Emacs. Is this
> correct? What alternatives are people using on a 32-bit machine?
emacs-snapshot has a max buffer size of 256MB, xemacs of 1GB (IIRC).
--
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-10-22 7:38 UTC|newest]
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[not found] <mailman.12184.1129935330.20277.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2005-10-21 23:23 ` editing large files Pascal Bourguignon
2005-10-22 7:38 ` David Kastrup [this message]
2005-10-22 9:28 ` Tim X
2005-10-22 16:56 ` Sebastian Luque
[not found] ` <mailman.12242.1130000339.20277.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2005-10-23 5:36 ` Indenting in HTML mode Tyler
2005-10-24 11:59 ` Anselm Helbig
2005-10-21 22:53 editing large files Sebastian Luque
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