From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andreas =?iso-8859-1?q?R=F6hler?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: opening large files (few hundred meg) Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 08:07:59 +0100 Message-ID: <200801290807.59899.andreas.roehler@online.de> References: <1f94fef6-a335-4ce5-8d4b-7e87025a28dc@e32g2000prn.googlegroups.com> <2adae7bb-c775-4a6e-bf83-66a8618b326d@s12g2000prg.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1201590445 2514 80.91.229.12 (29 Jan 2008 07:07:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 07:07:25 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jan 29 08:07:45 2008 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 1JJkZJ-0000fm-5h for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 29 Jan 2008 08:07:41 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JJkYs-0000BG-2j for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 29 Jan 2008 02:07:14 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JJkYb-0000Ai-Oy for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Jan 2008 02:06:57 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JJkYa-0000AR-7U for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Jan 2008 02:06:57 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JJkYa-0000AO-4U for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Jan 2008 02:06:56 -0500 Original-Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de ([212.227.126.186]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JJkYZ-000669-ON for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Jan 2008 02:06:56 -0500 Original-Received: from noname (p54BE8E0A.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [84.190.142.10]) by mrelayeu.kundenserver.de (node=mrelayeu8) with ESMTP (Nemesis) id 0ML31I-1JJkYY2zyJ-0002sA; Tue, 29 Jan 2008 08:06:54 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 In-Reply-To: <2adae7bb-c775-4a6e-bf83-66a8618b326d@s12g2000prg.googlegroups.com> Content-Disposition: inline X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX19u1pXDDT1jFH+F2vzF/tcr4CPB8JKwIkmt6pC NUOu2inK2DY2v5j+fJR02kv/xYlboH2boeLXh748kTyqqsgVQ2 MzH3Uphjbh5PgBvpeCsKQ== X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6? (barebone, rare!) 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:51046 Archived-At: Am Montag, 28. Januar 2008 22:50 schrieb Jason Rumney: > On 28 Jan, 20:36, Andreas R=F6hler wrote: > > 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. > _______________________________________________ Did someone start to write that? As sed is fast providing chunks, searching and replacing should work with reasonable speed. Andreas R=F6hler