From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Michael Mueller Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Emacs hangs when deleting a large portion of text in a large file Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2002 10:30:08 +0100 Organization: Agilent Technologies Deutschland GmbH Sender: help-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <3DEF1CA0.BE967F27@agilent.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1039081215 12045 80.91.224.249 (5 Dec 2002 09:40:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2002 09:40:15 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18JsUM-000381-00 for ; Thu, 05 Dec 2002 10:40:10 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18JsQS-0004iZ-00; Thu, 05 Dec 2002 04:36:08 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.isc.org!agilent.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 13 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: cswreg.cos.agilent.com Original-X-Trace: cswtrans.cos.agilent.com 1039080609 27077 130.29.154.45 (5 Dec 2002 09:30:09 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@cswtrans.cos.agilent.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2002 09:30:09 +0000 (UTC) X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (X11; U; HP-UX B.11.11 9000/785) X-Accept-Language: en Cache-Post-Path: cswreg.cos.agilent.com!michaelm@sstdw041.germany.agilent.com X-Cache: nntpcache 2.3.3 (see http://www.nntpcache.org/) Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:107745 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:4295 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:4295 I often use emacs to examine large log files (may be 10 MB). Sometimes I want to extract a part of such a file for further investigation, for example, I am in the middle of the file and want to delete the rest. When I just jump to the end and then delete the region using C-W, emacs hangs. I assume emacs has problems saving such a large portion of text in the kill ring and it would come back if I would wait for some minutes or maybe hours, which I don't want to do. Even C-g won't interupt this. The only thing I can do is kill emacs from the shell. Is there a way to delete large portions of text from large files quickly? Thanks Michael