From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: jadamson@partners.org (Joel J. Adamson) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: opening large files (few hundred meg) Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 09:52:43 -0500 Organization: I need to put my ORGANIZATION here. Message-ID: <87abmoiszo.fsf@W0053328.mgh.harvard.edu> References: <1f94fef6-a335-4ce5-8d4b-7e87025a28dc@e32g2000prn.googlegroups.com> <87r6g1esga.fsf@gmx.de> <2adae7bb-c775-4a6e-bf83-66a8618b326d@s12g2000prg.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1201621241 12684 80.91.229.12 (29 Jan 2008 15:40:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 15:40:41 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jan 29 16:41:01 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JJsa2-0001of-NK for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 29 Jan 2008 16:40:58 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JJsZb-0004TY-Nb for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 29 Jan 2008 10:40:31 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!news-fra1.dfn.de!storethat.news.telefonica.de!telefonica.de!news.germany.com!news.banetele.no!uio.no!quimby.gnus.org!news.ccs.neu.edu!news.dfci.harvard.edu!news.harvard.edu!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 24 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: w0053328.mgh.harvard.edu Original-X-Trace: plato.harvard.edu 1201618363 20957 132.183.29.121 (29 Jan 2008 14:52:43 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: news@plato.harvard.edu Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 14:52:43 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:392TEOlRoGRyELSqUJy5bT/F5e8= Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:155672 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:51055 Archived-At: Thierry Volpiatto writes: [...] > screen work in ansi-term/term. > But how a text file can become so big ? Good question: perhaps it's a log file and its size is trying to tell you something. Do you really want to edit it or just view it? Joel -- Joel J. Adamson Biostatistician Pediatric Psychopharmacology Research Unit Massachusetts General Hospital Boston, MA 02114 (617) 643-1432 (303) 880-3109