From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tim X Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: editing large files Date: 22 Oct 2005 19:28:40 +1000 Message-ID: <877jc5oq7r.fsf@tiger.rapttech.com.au> References: Reply-To: timx@spamto.devnul.com NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1129973458 22438 80.91.229.2 (22 Oct 2005 09:30:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2005 09:30:58 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Oct 22 11:30:53 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ETFiD-0007yr-Jo for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 22 Oct 2005 11:30:49 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ETFiC-0004FN-LL for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 22 Oct 2005 05:30:48 -0400 Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 26 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.4 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: ppp1-92.lns1.syd7.internode.on.net Original-X-Trace: duster.adelaide.on.net 1129973320 59.167.1.92 (22 Oct 2005 18:58:40 +0950) Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!peer01.west.cox.net!cox.net!newsfeeds.ihug.co.nz!ihug.co.nz!news.xtra.co.nz!news-south.connect.com.au!duster.adelaide.on.net!not-for-mail Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:134879 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org 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:30464 Archived-At: Sebastian Luque 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 -- Tim Cross The e-mail address on this message is FALSE (obviously!). My real e-mail is to a company in Australia called rapttech and my login is tcross - if you really need to send mail, you should be able to work it out!