* Towards a large file mode, slowness
@ 2008-07-02 12:14 Andreas Röhler
2008-07-03 19:54 ` Kevin Rodgers
0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Andreas Röhler @ 2008-07-02 12:14 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: help-gnu-emacs
Hi,
dealing with large files, exceeding emacs capabilities,
idea is to use `sed' to deliver subsequent chunks.
This seems possible if the files structur is line-separated,
if no single line exceeds max volume.
For example that way:
sed -n '111,130p' ein.txt
In the real program below the range is given by var
`ltm-start-line' and
(+ ltm-start-line ltm-line-step)
If I call `sed' from within an Emacs-Shell, its quite
fast regardless of the files volume.
Using `shell-command-to-string' or `call-process' as
the program below, it's slowed down
considerably.
Any ideas how to avoid this?
Thanks
Andreas Röhler
;;; large-text-mode.el --- Loads large line-separated files
;; Copyright (C) 2008 Andreas Roehler
;; Author: vorname nachname <andreas.roehler@online.de>
;; Keywords: wp
;; This file is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
;; it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
;; the Free Software Foundation; either version 3, or (at your option)
;; any later version.
;; This file is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
;; but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
;; MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
;; GNU General Public License for more details.
;; You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
;; along with GNU Emacs; see the file COPYING. If not, write to
;; the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor,
;; Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.
;;; Commentary:
;;
;;; Code:
;; sed -n '111,130p' ein.txt
(require 'ffap)
(setq ltm-line-step 2)
(setq ltm-start-line 1)
(defvar ltm-file nil)
(defun ltm-find-file (&optional ltm-start-line ltm-file)
(interactive "p")
(let* ((file (cond (ltm-file ltm-file)
((featurep 'ffap)
(ffap-guesser))
(read-from-minibuffer "File: ")))
(buffer (file-name-nondirectory file)))
(ltm-find-file-intern file buffer (concat "sed -n "(number-to-string
ltm-start-line)"," (number-to-string (+ ltm-start-line ltm-line-step))"p ")))
(setq ltm-start-line ltm-start-line)
(setq ltm-file ltm-file))
(defun ltm-find-file-intern (file buffer sedcommand)
(set-buffer (get-buffer-create buffer))
(erase-buffer)
(switch-to-buffer buffer)
;; Two alternatives
;; (call-process "/bin/bash" file buffer t "-c" sedcommand)
(insert (shell-command-to-string (concat sedcommand file)))
)
(defun ltm-next ()
" "
(interactive)
(setq ltm-start-line (+ ltm-start-line ltm-line-step))
(ltm-find-file ltm-start-line ltm-file))
(provide 'large-text-mode)
;;; large-text-mode.el ends here
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* Re: Towards a large file mode, slowness
2008-07-02 12:14 Towards a large file mode, slowness Andreas Röhler
@ 2008-07-03 19:54 ` Kevin Rodgers
0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Kevin Rodgers @ 2008-07-03 19:54 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: help-gnu-emacs
Andreas Röhler wrote:
> Hi,
>
> dealing with large files, exceeding emacs capabilities,
> idea is to use `sed' to deliver subsequent chunks.
>
> This seems possible if the files structur is line-separated,
> if no single line exceeds max volume.
>
> For example that way:
>
> sed -n '111,130p' ein.txt
>
> In the real program below the range is given by var
> `ltm-start-line' and
>
> (+ ltm-start-line ltm-line-step)
>
> If I call `sed' from within an Emacs-Shell, its quite
> fast regardless of the files volume.
>
> Using `shell-command-to-string' or `call-process' as
> the program below, it's slowed down
> considerably.
>
> Any ideas how to avoid this?
Read the thread re: "opening large files (few hundred meg)" from
January - February for some other ideas on how to implement this.
--
Kevin Rodgers
Denver, Colorado, USA
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