From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: kgold@watson.ibm.com (kgold) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: reading a big file Date: 2 Aug 2005 16:46:18 GMT Organization: IBM T.J. Watson Research Center Message-ID: <42efa35a_3@news1.prserv.net> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1123000871 1051 80.91.229.2 (2 Aug 2005 16:41:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2005 16:41:11 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Aug 02 18:41:01 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Dzzln-00043J-Qv for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 02 Aug 2005 18:37:36 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DzzoU-0008GM-UL for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 02 Aug 2005 12:40:23 -0400 X-Newsreader: xrn 9.02 Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: yktgi01e0-s5.watson.ibm.com Original-X-Trace: 2 Aug 2005 16:46:18 GMT, yktgi01e0-s5.watson.ibm.com Original-Lines: 17 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@prserv.net Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!news3.google.com!news.glorb.com!newscon02.news.prodigy.com!newscon06.news.prodigy.com!prodigy.net!newsfeed.us.prserv.net!prserv.net!news1.prserv.net!alpha.watson.ibm.com!kgold Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:132842 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org 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:28355 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:28355 Saravanan Manickanainar Dakshinamoorthy writes: > > I am using emacs version 21.3 on solaris. When i tried to read a text > file of size 4MB, it takes > almost a minute or more. When i read the same file with vi it is read > very fast. Is there a way > to make this fast? I suspect that either you have some customization or default that is causing emacs to parse the file. After the file is read in, what is the mode? Fundamental mode or something else? Are you invoking a new emacs process or visiting the file with an already running emacs? -- Ken Goldman kgold@watson.ibm.com 914-784-7646