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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

  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-10-22  7:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [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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