From: Jason Rumney <jasonrumney@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: opening large files (few hundred meg)
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 14:10:12 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <f6e87c78-2a65-4389-bc99-69cbddcb3ff3@f10g2000hsf.googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 36295bce-c40b-4faf-ae7d-04eb90796da8@q39g2000hsf.googlegroups.com
On 29 Jan, 16:34, Xah Lee <x...@xahlee.org> wrote:
> The reason i want to
> open it in emacs and process it using elisp is more just a
> exploration, not really a practical need)
And this summarizes why such a feature does not yet exist in Emacs
nicely. While many have hit the limit and been shocked at finding an
imperfection in Emacs, they then are directed to tools like grep, sed,
perl, head and tail, and realise that for huge files a full screen
editor that works on buffers is an inferior solution to command line
tools that work on streams, and their motivation for somehow
shoehorning this different way of working into Emacs disappears as
there is no practical need.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-01-29 22:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-01-28 17:35 opening large files (few hundred meg) Xah Lee
2008-01-28 18:05 ` Sven Joachim
2008-01-28 19:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-01-28 20:36 ` Andreas Röhler
[not found] ` <mailman.6652.1201552566.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-01-28 21:50 ` Jason Rumney
2008-01-29 7:07 ` Andreas Röhler
2008-01-29 7:20 ` Thierry Volpiatto
[not found] ` <mailman.6666.1201591238.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-01-29 9:08 ` Tim X
2008-01-29 16:34 ` Xah Lee
2008-01-29 19:06 ` Tom Tromey
2008-01-29 20:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.6705.1201639469.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-01-30 20:01 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-01-30 22:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-01-29 22:10 ` Jason Rumney [this message]
2008-01-30 17:08 ` Joel J. Adamson
2008-01-31 5:57 ` Tim X
2008-01-31 15:35 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-02-08 11:25 ` Giacomo Boffi
2008-02-06 1:47 ` Samuel Karl Peterson
2008-01-29 14:52 ` Joel J. Adamson
2008-01-30 14:55 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-02-06 16:42 ` Mathias Dahl
2008-02-06 16:55 ` Mathias Dahl
2008-01-29 10:43 ` Johan Bockgård
2008-01-29 15:35 ` Andreas Röhler
2008-02-06 1:25 ` Samuel Karl Peterson
2008-02-17 16:01 ` Kevin Rodgers
2008-01-29 16:33 ` Ted Zlatanov
[not found] ` <mailman.6646.1201548710.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-01-30 15:12 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-01-30 16:55 ` Sven Joachim
2008-01-30 21:53 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-01-31 22:55 ` Ilya Zakharevich
[not found] ` <200801312255.m0VMt701019096@powdermilk.math.berkeley.edu>
2008-02-01 11:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.6836.1201863892.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-02-01 22:26 ` Ilya Zakharevich
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