From: upro <upro@gmx.net>
Subject: Re: Maximum buffer size exceeded
Date: Wed, 05 May 2004 21:37:04 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87fzaemzrz.fsf@lux99.localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.3511.1083777609.1061.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Michael Welsh Duggan <md5i@cs.cmu.edu> writes:
> Harish Narayanan <harish@gamebox.net> writes:
>
>> Thanks Kin.
>>
>> I do things like that when I need to edit the last or first few
>> lines. What if the portions I need edited are at some arbitrary line
>> numbers in the middle? I don't always know exactly where they will be.
>
> I had to deal with this recently for some files, as I ended up using
> something like "split -C 100m". You can use cat to rejoin them
> afterwards.
I'm sorry if what I say is wrong but I think to remember that there is
a compile-time option which, when set, enables emacs to open larger
files than the usual compiled version. Not sure how big though...
Greetings, Michael
>
>> Kin Cho wrote:
>>
>>>Harish Narayanan <harish@gamebox.net> writes:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>I've been trying to open a large file (208 MB) but I receive the
>>>>error "Maximum buffer size exceeded" and Emacs fails to open the
>>>>file. This is Emacs 21.2.1 on a Redhat GNU/Linux 9 box.
>>>>
>>>>I tried searching in the archives, and noticed this has been
>>>>asked before, but the responses don't seem encouraging. Is there
>>>>a way of working around this that's arisen in the recent past?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>Use head/tail/dd to extract the small part of the file you want
>>>to edit, edit that small file, then use cat/head/tail/dd to put
>>>it back into your original file.
>>>
>>>Let's say you want to edit the last line of the file 208MB, which
>>>is 1 million lines long:
>>>
>>>tail -1 208MB > foo
>>>emacs foo
>>>(head -999999 208MB; cat foo) > new-208MB
>>>
>>>-kin
>>>
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>>
>>
>>
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[not found] <mailman.3364.1083718441.1061.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2004-05-05 2:00 ` Maximum buffer size exceeded Kin Cho
2004-05-05 3:26 ` Harish Narayanan
[not found] ` <mailman.3382.1083727713.1061.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2004-05-05 5:18 ` Kin Cho
2004-05-05 9:36 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2004-05-05 5:53 ` Marco Gidde
2004-05-05 11:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.3431.1083752452.1061.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2004-05-05 11:45 ` Marco Gidde
2004-05-06 6:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.3625.1083821602.1061.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2004-05-06 8:21 ` Marco Gidde
2004-05-06 12:12 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2004-05-05 15:56 ` Miles Bader
2004-05-05 19:35 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-05-06 6:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-05-05 17:16 ` Michael Welsh Duggan
[not found] ` <mailman.3511.1083777609.1061.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2004-05-05 19:37 ` upro [this message]
2004-05-05 5:50 ` Matthieu Moy
2004-05-05 19:31 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-09-02 6:44 maximum " Daniel C. Bastos
2007-09-02 11:59 ` Emilio Lopes
2007-09-02 21:39 ` Daniel C. Bastos
2007-09-03 8:18 ` Tim X
2007-09-03 12:52 ` Daniel C. Bastos
2007-09-03 19:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-09-04 11:07 ` Johan Bockgård
[not found] ` <mailman.254.1188847491.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-09-04 12:13 ` Giorgos Keramidas
2007-09-04 14:48 ` Peter Dyballa
[not found] ` <mailman.308.1188917334.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-09-04 18:13 ` Emilio Lopes
2007-09-04 19:10 ` Giorgos Keramidas
2007-09-04 20:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-09-05 12:37 ` Kim F. Storm
2007-09-05 15:00 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-09-05 15:14 ` Jason Rumney
2007-09-05 16:08 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-09-06 4:59 ` Richard Stallman
2007-09-06 5:44 ` David Kastrup
2007-09-02 19:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-09-03 23:25 ` Glenn Morris
2007-09-04 8:20 ` Tim X
2007-09-04 17:31 ` Glenn Morris
2007-09-05 8:20 ` Tim X
2007-09-04 17:53 ` Daniel C. Bastos
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2004-05-05 0:52 Maximum " Harish Narayanan
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