From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Pascal Bourguignon Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: editing large files Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2005 01:23:57 +0200 Organization: Informatimago Message-ID: <87r7ae314i.fsf@thalassa.informatimago.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1129937265 12134 80.91.229.2 (21 Oct 2005 23:27:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2005 23:27:45 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Oct 22 01:27:43 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ET6Hd-0002Lz-26 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 22 Oct 2005 01:26:45 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ET6Hc-0001f6-F8 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 21 Oct 2005 19:26:44 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.uchicago.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!newsfeed.cw.net!news-FFM2.ecrc.de!news-lond.gip.net!news.gsl.net!gip.net!easynet-quince!easynet.net!easynet-post2!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwAQMAAABtzGvEAAAABlBMVEUAAAD///+l2Z/dAAAA oElEQVR4nK3OsRHCMAwF0O8YQufUNIQRGIAja9CxSA55AxZgFO4coMgYrEDDQZWPIlNAjwq9 033pbOBPtbXuB6PKNBn5gZkhGa86Z4x2wE67O+06WxGD/HCOGR0deY3f9Ijwwt7rNGNf6Oac l/GuZTF1wFGKiYYHKSFAkjIo1b6sCYS1sVmFhhhahKQssRjRT90ITWUk6vvK3RsPGs+M1RuR mV+hO/VvFAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg== X-Accept-Language: fr, es, en User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:IESvTeFm80xOt3HyKyKl1n157Ig= Original-Lines: 15 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 62.93.174.79 Original-X-Trace: DXC=TJ[6Lc=?2;BR6[M;QWjiRDiZdW>mQFP3FbBd4DjF1d]A Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:134870 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:30455 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? split;emacs;cat -- __Pascal Bourguignon__ http://www.informatimago.com/