From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Sebastian Luque Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: editing large files Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2005 17:53:08 -0500 Organization: Memorial University of Newfoundland Message-ID: <877jc6wkh7.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1129935398 7890 80.91.229.2 (21 Oct 2005 22:56:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2005 22:56:38 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Oct 22 00:56:36 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ET5nb-0004c3-GE for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 22 Oct 2005 00:55:43 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ET5na-0004GJ-6B for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 21 Oct 2005 18:55:42 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ET5n9-00044D-Ee for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Oct 2005 18:55:16 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ET5n4-00041z-1g for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Oct 2005 18:55:11 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ET5n3-00041f-Ol for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Oct 2005 18:55:09 -0400 Original-Received: from [80.91.229.2] (helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA:16) (Exim 4.34) id 1ET5n3-0007fT-RD for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Oct 2005 18:55:10 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1ET5lq-0004Jz-Fl for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 22 Oct 2005 00:53:54 +0200 Original-Received: from s0106001111ddbc6e.wp.shawcable.net ([24.77.72.102]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 22 Oct 2005 00:53:54 +0200 Original-Received: from spluque by s0106001111ddbc6e.wp.shawcable.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 22 Oct 2005 00:53:54 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 14 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: s0106001111ddbc6e.wp.shawcable.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.110004 (No Gnus v0.4) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:eboksx4dFznTE8M8F/2FDepaNUY= 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:30453 Archived-At: 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? Cheers, -- Sebastian P. Luque