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: Reading huge files Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2007 08:24:52 -0700 Message-ID: References: <8642ba650701081417n3c658d33v6dbf743a9bd30c7c@mail.gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.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 1168356330 30324 80.91.229.12 (9 Jan 2007 15:25:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2007 15:25:30 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jan 09 16:25:27 2007 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 1H4Iqn-00084k-Cj for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 09 Jan 2007 16:25:22 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1H4Iqm-00049g-TN for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 09 Jan 2007 10:25:20 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1H4Iqa-00049N-TO for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Jan 2007 10:25:08 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1H4IqZ-000499-6U for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Jan 2007 10:25:08 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1H4IqZ-000496-2P for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Jan 2007 10:25:07 -0500 Original-Received: from [80.91.229.2] (helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1H4IqY-0000EO-Np for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Jan 2007 10:25:06 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1H4IqQ-0006UP-Aj for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Jan 2007 16:24:58 +0100 Original-Received: from c-24-9-156-178.hsd1.co.comcast.net ([24.9.156.178]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 09 Jan 2007 16:24:58 +0100 Original-Received: from kevin.d.rodgers by c-24-9-156-178.hsd1.co.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 09 Jan 2007 16:24:58 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 25 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-24-9-156-178.hsd1.co.comcast.net User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (Macintosh/20061207) In-Reply-To: <8642ba650701081417n3c658d33v6dbf743a9bd30c7c@mail.gmail.com> 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:40193 Archived-At: Leonid Grinberg wrote: > I need to read a file, which contains approximately 1.2GB of data. > Obviously, this is well above the maximum buffer limit. Is there any > way for me to read it without > > 1) breaking it up into smaller files and > 2) using a different editor Not that I'm aware of. You could cook up something like: (defun view-large-file-contents (file beg end) "View FILE contents from bytes BEG through END, in View mode." (interactive "fView file: \nnFrom byte: \nnTo byte: ") (switch-to-buffer (generate-new-buffer (format "%s[%d,%d]" (file-name-nondirectory file) beg end))) (insert-file-contents file nil beg end) (view-mode 1)) > I am using GNU Emacs 21.4.1 on Ubuntu Edgy Eft on a Dell Latitude C600 > with 256MB of memory. -- Kevin Rodgers Denver, Colorado, USA