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 22:09:40 +0200 Organization: albasani.net Message-ID: <87a9vdeyrf.fsf@panzer.v.cablecom.net> References: <87k3uhf0gc.fsf@panzer.v.cablecom.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1351023017 21836 80.91.229.3 (23 Oct 2012 20:10:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2012 20:10:17 +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 22:10:25 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 1TQknw-0000bR-S1 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 23 Oct 2012 22:10:24 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38733 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TQknm-0002Wk-09 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 23 Oct 2012 16:10:14 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!news-1.dfn.de!news.dfn.de!feeder.erje.net!news.albasani.net!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 25 Original-X-Trace: news.albasani.net Wd+WFWcfVZy8J9681ulwr8WyCBc2ME1XkiK7URgKd5UjqhNHO4BoI55l0WJdlUJRnJtc0HMN+3hrHryCxasIAg== Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2012 20:09:50 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: news.albasani.net; logging-data="dYJ80qUNo+pB2PvqUnjomPO2/Gs3UlfZbIlu4uqIxk30KE0Ulu4RPI1WVtF3l+bGQnaQzIeyQdXqOlBP5GjeVvZlVTCahA6cvmM72nM3c/5iHEhSQD3TNpCpmnDARscF"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@albasani.net" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.2.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:65q4Vqe7U2m3t4kL7gK+1mUMIEc= sha1:VyTVRIfD4NxTa3AI0jsHGP4lzcE= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:195052 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:87381 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii writes: >> 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)? Actually "only" ~6mb with 120000 lines, Emacs version is GNU Emacs 24.2.50.1 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw scroll bars) on an AMD64-bit quad core with Debian 6.0.4 > It's impossible to give you any meaningful answer without knowing at > least that much. Thanks Fab