From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: "maximum buffer size exceeded" error Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2005 10:25:18 -0600 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1127926059 32557 80.91.229.2 (28 Sep 2005 16:47:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2005 16:47:39 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Sep 28 18:47:35 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EKf1w-0001kk-QT for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 28 Sep 2005 18:43:41 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EKf1w-0005jh-9S for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 28 Sep 2005 12:43:40 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EKey0-0004Lw-0f for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Sep 2005 12:39:36 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EKexV-0004EC-E6 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Sep 2005 12:39:11 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EKexQ-00042P-Ga for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Sep 2005 12:39:01 -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 1EKep8-0003x2-EF for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Sep 2005 12:30:26 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1EKemh-0005XL-U0 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Sep 2005 18:27:56 +0200 Original-Received: from 207.167.42.60 ([207.167.42.60]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 28 Sep 2005 18:27:55 +0200 Original-Received: from ihs_4664 by 207.167.42.60 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 28 Sep 2005 18:27:55 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 11 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 207.167.42.60 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.9 (X11/20041105) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: 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:29795 Archived-At: Dan Simon wrote: > I am trying to work on text files in excess of 180 Mb. When I try to > open the file I get the above response (in quotes). > > Is there a way to set the maximum buffer size so that I can open these > bigger files? http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/EmacsFileSizeLimit -- Kevin Rodgers