From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andreas Roehler Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Reading huge files Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2007 21:42:11 +0100 Organization: 1&1 Internet AG Message-ID: References: <8642ba650701081417n3c658d33v6dbf743a9bd30c7c@mail.gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1168375258 6573 80.91.229.12 (9 Jan 2007 20:40:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2007 20:40:58 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jan 09 21:40:57 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 1H4Nm2-0006JV-4U for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 09 Jan 2007 21:40:46 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1H4Nm1-0001gF-J9 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 09 Jan 2007 15:40:45 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!news4.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!newsfeed01.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!newsfeed.cw.net!cw.net!news-FFM2.ecrc.de!feed.news.schlund.de!schlund.de!news.online.de!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 33 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: p54beac6b.dip0.t-ipconnect.de Original-X-Trace: online.de 1168374890 23865 84.190.172.107 (9 Jan 2007 20:34:50 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@einsundeins.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2007 20:34:50 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: KNode/0.9.2 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:144592 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:40196 Archived-At: Kevin Rodgers wrote: > 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. > Think it should be possible to have an ed-mode. Until then, opening a file into `ed' from an emacs-shell seems much more convenient than calling it from bash or so. __ Andreas Roehler