From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Handling large files with Emacs Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2012 21:52:20 +0200 Message-ID: <83r4oparuz.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87k3uhf0gc.fsf@panzer.v.cablecom.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1351021955 12366 80.91.229.3 (23 Oct 2012 19:52:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2012 19:52:35 +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 Oct 23 21:52:42 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TQkWn-0003Do-PA for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 23 Oct 2012 21:52:41 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33344 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TQkWg-0006kb-59 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 23 Oct 2012 15:52:34 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:49286) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TQkWb-0006kT-0G for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Oct 2012 15:52:29 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TQkWU-00015I-Qu for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Oct 2012 15:52:28 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout21.012.net.il ([80.179.55.169]:40596) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TQkWU-000144-Je for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Oct 2012 15:52:22 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout21.012.net.il by a-mtaout21.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0MCD006002OPBI00@a-mtaout21.012.net.il> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Oct 2012 21:52:21 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout21.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0MCD006WL3786H80@a-mtaout21.012.net.il> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Oct 2012 21:52:21 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <87k3uhf0gc.fsf@panzer.v.cablecom.net> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) X-Received-From: 80.179.55.169 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:87380 Archived-At: > From: Fab > Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2012 21:33:07 +0200 > > I had to work with a vast bibTeX file today and Emacs almost died and > got super slow, which made working with Emacs impossible. So I switched > to Vim. However, I use Emacs since some years now and the only thing > that really bothers me is this issue. I do not need to work with large > files a lot, but when I do, Emacs is not my side kick anymore. I tried > some additional packages, but none of them really satisfied me. Why is > Vim still so fast and smooth when it deals with large files? How do you > handle this issue with Emacs? I would love to see Emacs get over this > issue some day. How large is "large"? Which version of Emacs was that? On what platform (CPU and OS)? It's impossible to give you any meaningful answer without knowing at least that much.