From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: editing large files Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2005 09:38:33 +0200 Organization: Organization?!? Message-ID: <85ek6euhl2.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1129966910 9065 80.91.229.2 (22 Oct 2005 07:41:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2005 07:41:50 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Oct 22 09:41:42 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ETDzM-0004wm-TH for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 22 Oct 2005 09:40:25 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ETDzM-0004VW-C4 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 22 Oct 2005 03:40:24 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeed.gamma.ru!Gamma.RU!npeer.de.kpn-eurorings.net!newsfeed.freenet.de!newsfeed01.chello.at!newsfeed.arcor.de!news.arcor.de!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help X-Face: 2FEFf>]>q>2iw=B6, xrUubRI>pR&Ml9=ao@P@i)L:\urd*t9M~y1^:+Y]'C0~{mAl`oQuAl \!3KEIp?*w`|bL5qr,H)LFO6Q=qx~iH4DN; i"; /yuIsqbLLCh/!U#X[S~(5eZ41to5f%E@'ELIi$t^ Vc\LWP@J5p^rst0+('>Er0=^1{]M9!p?&:\z]|;&=NP3AhB!B_bi^]Pfkw User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:NPyzBkLo7pr8olltPYiVr7vNgnI= Original-Lines: 13 Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 22 Oct 2005 09:38:31 MEST Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: ba12e14c.newsread4.arcor-online.net Original-X-Trace: DXC=[mCIK@2_LTmci]h2U0KHce:ejgIfPPlddjW\KbG]kaMh:YeUX299h1lF5MOK` 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:30463 Archived-At: Sebastian Luque 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