From: Tim X <timx@spamto.devnul.com>
Subject: Re: editing large files
Date: 22 Oct 2005 19:28:40 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <877jc5oq7r.fsf@tiger.rapttech.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.12184.1129935330.20277.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Sebastian Luque <spluque@gmail.com> writes:
> Hi,
>
> 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?
>
>
For large files, I usually just split them up, do my editing and then
join them back together again. If the changes I need to make are
repetitive or fairly easily specified in a programatic fashion, I just
use sed.
Tim
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-10-22 9:28 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
2005-10-22 9:28 ` Tim X [this message]
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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