From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: pjb@informatimago.com (Pascal J. Bourguignon) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Poor Performance w/ Long Files Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2009 02:09:36 +0200 Organization: Informatimago Message-ID: <87skfnwdkv.fsf@galatea.local> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1250728853 29603 80.91.229.12 (20 Aug 2009 00:40:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2009 00:40:53 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Aug 20 02:40:46 2009 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 1Mdvht-0006N3-9P for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 20 Aug 2009 02:40:45 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:58286 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Mdvhs-00062d-PK for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 19 Aug 2009 20:40:44 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 26 Original-X-Trace: individual.net V6wMkQf7fYHAZTfbwOZqCQcIKgmv5EN6pbIHGqmJQTrP1KI/I+ Cancel-Lock: sha1:NDc4OGI3MGYyNDdiMDBmZDVjZDRjNWI3NDFlZjE3YTJlNmFjOTI4ZA== sha1:DdToeuK9VXmPIDyDrftM1Zl+wjc= Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwAQMAAABtzGvEAAAABlBMVEUAAAD///+l2Z/dAAAA oElEQVR4nK3OsRHCMAwF0O8YQufUNIQRGIAja9CxSA55AxZgFO4coMgYrEDDQZWPIlNAjwq9 033pbOBPtbXuB6PKNBn5gZkhGa86Z4x2wE67O+06WxGD/HCOGR0deY3f9Ijwwt7rNGNf6Oac l/GuZTF1wFGKiYYHKSFAkjIo1b6sCYS1sVmFhhhahKQssRjRT90ITWUk6vvK3RsPGs+M1RuR mV+hO/VvFAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg== X-Accept-Language: fr, es, en X-Disabled: X-No-Archive: no User-Agent: Gnus/5.1008 (Gnus v5.10.8) Emacs/22.3 (darwin) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:172120 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:67279 Archived-At: Tim Visher writes: > Hello Everyone, > > I work with many large files (+10,000,000 ASCII characters) at work > and I've noticed that Emacs does extremely poorly with those files. I > have taken to opening them up in something like Notepad++ to look at > them and editing the programs that operate on them in Emacs. I'd love > to be able to just stick with Emacs. > > Is there something that I just haven't set yet or does Emacs have > trouble with large files? Perhaps you could disable some emacs options that might take time, like font-locking. Basically, if you edit this files in fundamental-mode, with truncate-line turned off with C-u 1 M-x toggle-truncate-lines RET and with font-locking turned off with C-u -1 M-x font-lock-mode RET, it should go faster. Otherwise, have a computer with a lot of RAM. Arg! You're mentionning Notepad++, perhaps you are using MS-Windows? Unfortunately, I know nothing about MS-Windows, much less about its optimization... -- __Pascal Bourguignon__