From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: opening large files (few hundred meg)
Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 09:55:38 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvodb374ah.fsf-monnier+gnu.emacs.help@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 2adae7bb-c775-4a6e-bf83-66a8618b326d@s12g2000prg.googlegroups.com
>> What about a large-text-mode: sed reads chunks of text
>> in, one by one, letting Emacs forget the rest. Than
>> only the line-no matters, sent to sed.
> Such solutions have been proposed before, but the likely way that a
> user will navigate through such a huge file is by searching, so just
> paging parts of the file in and out is only part of the solution, it
> must also offer searching to be useful.
But now that isearch is able to do things like switch buffer when it
reaches the end of a buffer, we could write a large-file-mode which
"transparently" loads the various chunks while isearching.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-01-30 14:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-01-28 17:35 opening large files (few hundred meg) Xah Lee
2008-01-28 18:05 ` Sven Joachim
2008-01-28 19:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-01-28 20:36 ` Andreas Röhler
[not found] ` <mailman.6652.1201552566.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-01-28 21:50 ` Jason Rumney
2008-01-29 7:07 ` Andreas Röhler
2008-01-29 7:20 ` Thierry Volpiatto
[not found] ` <mailman.6666.1201591238.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-01-29 9:08 ` Tim X
2008-01-29 16:34 ` Xah Lee
2008-01-29 19:06 ` Tom Tromey
2008-01-29 20:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.6705.1201639469.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-01-30 20:01 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-01-30 22:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-01-29 22:10 ` Jason Rumney
2008-01-30 17:08 ` Joel J. Adamson
2008-01-31 5:57 ` Tim X
2008-01-31 15:35 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-02-08 11:25 ` Giacomo Boffi
2008-02-06 1:47 ` Samuel Karl Peterson
2008-01-29 14:52 ` Joel J. Adamson
2008-01-30 14:55 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2008-02-06 16:42 ` Mathias Dahl
2008-02-06 16:55 ` Mathias Dahl
2008-01-29 10:43 ` Johan Bockgård
2008-01-29 15:35 ` Andreas Röhler
2008-02-06 1:25 ` Samuel Karl Peterson
2008-02-17 16:01 ` Kevin Rodgers
2008-01-29 16:33 ` Ted Zlatanov
[not found] ` <mailman.6646.1201548710.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-01-30 15:12 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-01-30 16:55 ` Sven Joachim
2008-01-30 21:53 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-01-31 22:55 ` Ilya Zakharevich
[not found] ` <200801312255.m0VMt701019096@powdermilk.math.berkeley.edu>
2008-02-01 11:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.6836.1201863892.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-02-01 22:26 ` Ilya Zakharevich
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