From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ted Zlatanov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: oops? read/write vs type of length parameter Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2011 09:47:14 -0500 Organization: =?utf-8?B?0KLQtdC+0LTQvtGAINCX0LvQsNGC0LDQvdC+0LI=?= @ Cienfuegos Message-ID: <87tye3zfv1.fsf@lifelogs.com> References: <87wrj1jhfc.fsf@rho.meyering.net> <87d3ktjb9l.fsf@rho.meyering.net> <877hb1j7lz.fsf@rho.meyering.net> <877hb1m0jy.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <87wrj0fo8x.fsf@rho.meyering.net> <8739ln1u2c.fsf@lifelogs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1302619661 20077 80.91.229.12 (12 Apr 2011 14:47:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2011 14:47:41 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Apr 12 16:47:37 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Q9esT-00082g-Lq for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 12 Apr 2011 16:47:37 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41051 helo=lists2.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q9esT-0002ae-84 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 12 Apr 2011 10:47:37 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:48460) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q9esQ-0002aD-FZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Apr 2011 10:47:35 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q9esP-0007E2-Fn for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Apr 2011 10:47:34 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:51620) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q9esP-0007DU-7q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Apr 2011 10:47:33 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Q9esK-0007x5-5Z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Apr 2011 16:47:28 +0200 Original-Received: from 38.98.147.130 ([38.98.147.130]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 12 Apr 2011 16:47:28 +0200 Original-Received: from tzz by 38.98.147.130 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 12 Apr 2011 16:47:28 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 16 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 38.98.147.130 X-Face: bd.DQ~'29fIs`T_%O%C\g%6jW)yi[zuz6; d4V0`@y-~$#3P_Ng{@m+e4o<4P'#(_GJQ%TT= D}[Ep*b!\e,fBZ'j_+#"Ps?s2!4H2-Y"sx" User-Agent: Gnus/5.110016 (No Gnus v0.16) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:yDybPDY1MFX7YPZ4b1tN4xYsdtY= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 80.91.229.12 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:138439 Archived-At: On Tue, 12 Apr 2011 09:29:29 -0400 Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> From: Ted Zlatanov >> >> Just to add my vote: I think Emacs should be able to open and edit 2 GB >> and larger files, although IIUC the API policy discussed here doesn't >> remove that possibility. EZ> Of course, it doesn't! I made that change to be able to edit a 2.7GB EZ> file, and after the change I actually was able to do that, whereas EZ> before the change, I couldn't save the file after editing it. Wait, Emacs can edit large files now? That is great news! I didn't see it in the NEWS file, thanks for doing it. Is it documented anywhere? Ted