From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Fab Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Handling large files with Emacs Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2012 22:49:57 +0200 Organization: albasani.net Message-ID: <876260gbgq.fsf@panzer.v.cablecom.net> References: <87k3uhf0gc.fsf@panzer.v.cablecom.net> <87a9vdeyrf.fsf@panzer.v.cablecom.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1351025418 11406 80.91.229.3 (23 Oct 2012 20:50:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2012 20:50:18 +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 22:50:26 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 1TQlQe-0003Vg-Dk for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 23 Oct 2012 22:50:24 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49099 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TQlQW-0002U3-IQ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 23 Oct 2012 16:50:16 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!goblin1!goblin.stu.neva.ru!news.albasani.net!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 15 Original-X-Trace: news.albasani.net azPiVakAx2nHRLjjX6iYR6CDNL+VMstpu9sd/Imw2FKqpe7XB1Rqlil+uXB7rlK+C8LZABqyDODLDs2vNh0c29d0XFoZFWLluZVi3KEqtjxT92RQiXuEFKEnum2AT2BR Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2012 20:50:07 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: news.albasani.net; logging-data="VUIZMG2z41FzquKUg/hHJ6QCrprEEMHsiNZQ+8IAIyx0DSFX403WDZWeoV6yWDqioV5rAfK7D0DvGTpxBYQAbfT+3r61VdWQdWkFnar9eHIh6tDruzbe24QIIXj1I6/Z"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@albasani.net" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.2.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:M77hJcYRjisBbcWvFHzU+PsOfG4= sha1:7qEqxWYxhVLD8SWo3ur7u5IFIHM= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:195054 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:87383 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii writes: >> From: Fab >> Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2012 22:09:40 +0200 >> >> > How large is "large"? Which version of Emacs was that? On what >> > platform (CPU and OS)? >> Actually "only" ~6mb with 120000 lines > > That's ridiculously small. I routinely edit files approaching 500MB > without any problems, and that's on a 32-bit machine, whereas yours is > a 64-bit one. So something is seriously wrong with your system, or > maybe with the Emacs binary (but I can hardly believe it). I will go further into that! Thanks for the feedback