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From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@is.elta.co.il>
Subject: Re: Reading portions of large files
Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2003 22:21:05 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2561-Fri10Jan2003222104+0200-eliz@is.elta.co.il> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <x5heci423t.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (message from David Kastrup on 09 Jan 2003 19:20:06 +0100)

> From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
> Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
> Date: 09 Jan 2003 19:20:06 +0100
> 
> > I have very large files, sometimes over 1G, from which I would like to edit
> > very small portions, the headers or trailers for example.  Emacs won't open
> > those files, it complains about them being too big.  Is it possible to
> > edit, and save back after editing, only small portions of such files.
> 
> insert-file-contents is a built-in function.
> (insert-file-contents FILENAME &optional VISIT BEG END REPLACE)

I don't think this will help the OP, since BEG and END need to be
representable as Lisp integers, so they still are subject to the same
128-MB limit.

  reply	other threads:[~2003-01-10 19:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <mailman.100.1042135372.21513.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2003-01-09 18:20 ` Reading portions of large files David Kastrup
2003-01-10 19:21   ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
     [not found]   ` <mailman.153.1042230313.21513.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2003-01-10 20:51     ` David Kastrup
2003-01-11  8:51       ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found]       ` <mailman.169.1042278925.21513.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2003-01-11 10:42         ` David Kastrup
2003-01-12 20:38       ` Stefan Monnier <foo@acm.com>
2003-01-13  7:40         ` Miles Bader
2003-01-13  7:42           ` Miles Bader
2003-01-13  7:55             ` David Kastrup
2003-01-13  8:05               ` Miles Bader
2003-01-20  7:50         ` Lee Sau Dan
2003-01-24  7:55           ` Mac
2003-01-27 14:44           ` Stefan Monnier <foo@acm.com>
2003-01-10 16:27 ` Eric Pement
2003-01-10 17:16 ` Brendan Halpin
2003-01-10 20:35   ` Benjamin Riefenstahl
2003-01-11 10:25     ` Klaus Berndl
2003-01-20  7:50     ` Lee Sau Dan
2003-01-20 12:46       ` Benjamin Riefenstahl
2003-01-20  7:50   ` Lee Sau Dan
2003-01-09 15:45 Gerald.Jean

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